ʿAlī b. Maymūn, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Maymūn al-Maghribī al-Fāsī al-Ghumārī (d. 917/1511), a scholar and Sufi master from the Maghrib. He was born in the region of Ghumāra, near Fās (Fez), and hence was known both as ‘al-Fāsī’ and ‘al-Ghumārī’ (Ibn Ṭūlūn, 1/359; Ibn al-Ḥanbalī, 1(2)/952; al-Ghazzī, 1/271). In his Taʾrīkh Ibn al-Ḥanbalī quotes sections from ʿAlī b. Maymūn’s al-Risāla al-maymūniyya fī tawḥīd al-jarūmiyya, which state that Ibn Maymūn was known as al-Idrīsī, and was a descendant of the Prophet via al-Ḥas…