The present study sheds light on the possible contribution of the Manaqib al-shaykh 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Mzughi, a Tunisian hagiographic source datable to the 7th/14th century and partially edited by Nelly Amri in 2013, to the ongoing historiographical renewal on the origins of the Sufi way of the Shadhiliyya. In particular, the article aims at valorizing the heuristic potential of these Manaqib in relation to the "conflicts of memories" between Egyptian and North African currents of the Shadhiliyya recently highlighted by historians. The central thesis of the article is that the anonymous hagiographer of Shaykh al-Mzughi (the latter being a Tunisian companion of the eponymous master al-Shadhili), is the interpreter of an entirely Tuniso-centric representation of the Shadhiliyya and its origins, which differs from the competing systems of representations so far identified by researchers : the Egyptian-centric vision of the Alexandrian Shaykh Ibn 'Ata 'Allah al-Iskandari, which was long hegemonic both in Islamic countries and in the West, and the "multipolar" representations produced, respectively, by North African Shaykhs Ibn al-Sabbagh and al-Fasi and recently highlighted by Vincent Cornell, Kenneth Honerkamp, Nathan Hofer and others
