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, abū ʿabd allāh muḥammad b. ʿabd al-ḳādir b. aḥmad al-gulālī al-ḥasanī al-idrīsī , Moroccan legal scholar and author (1216-65/1801-49) who was for some time ḳāḍī of Tangier. He is the author of the following works: ¶ I (1) a fahrasa in which are recorded the names of his masters and also the id̲j̲āzas given by certain of them, such as al-Kūhin and al-Damnātī; (2) a commentary on the Iṣṭilaḥ al-ḳāmūs ; (3) another commentary on the introduction ( k̲h̲uṭba ) of Ibu Mālik’s Alfiyya ; (4) a history of the ʿAlawī dynasty called al-Durr al-munaḍḍad al-fāk̲h̲ir fī mā li-abnāʾ mawlānā ʿAlī al-S…

, abu ’l-ḥusayn ʿalī b. idrīs b. ʿalī al-ḥimyarī , jurist, poet and historian of Morocco, who was born and lived in Fās, where he put together a Dīwān , in one volume; a history called Taḥḳīḳ al-ak̲h̲bār ʿamman māta min ʿulamāʾ al-ḳarn al-t̲h̲ālit̲h̲ ʿas̲h̲ar ; and above all, three commentaries, the most important being the one on the S̲h̲arḥ Bannānī ʿalā Sullam al-Ak̲h̲ḍarī , the second on Ibn His̲h̲ām’s al-Muwaḍḍiḥ and the third on the Bahrām al-Ṣag̲h̲īr . He died at Fās on 13 Radjab 1259/9 August 1843, and was buried in that city. (M. Lakhdar) Bibliography E. Lévi-Provençal, Chorfa, 369 and…

, by-name of Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. Aḥmad , a Ḥasanī s̲h̲arīf from Constantine who moved to Fez, where he taught ḥadīt̲h̲ , logic and dialectic. None of his works has survived, but some noteworthy responsa ( ad̲j̲wiba ) on a number of cases of the category of ( nawāzil ) reveal his competence in the subject. He died in 1116/1704-5. (M. Lakhdar) Bibliography É. Lévi-Provençal, Chorfa, 288 and n. 2 Ḳādirī, Nas̲h̲r, ii, 184 idem, al-Nas̲h̲r al-kabīr, ii, fol. 53 r. idem, Iltiḳāṭ, fol. 57 r. M. Lakhdar, La vie littéraire au Maroc sous la dynasite ʿalawide, index.

, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Salām b. al-Ṭayyib , celebrated Moroccan genealogist of the Chorfa. Born at Fez, 10 Ramaḍān 1058/28 Sept. 1648, he followed there the courses of eminent teachers, including ʿAbd al-Ḳādir al-Fāsī and his two sons, Muḥammad and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, al-Yūsī, al-ʿArabī b. Aḥmad al-Fis̲h̲tālī, and Aḥmad b. al-ʿArabī b. al-Ḥād̲j̲d̲j̲. He was accomplished in lexicography, rhetoric, logic, dialectic, and ḥadīt̲h̲ and its principles ( ʿuṣūl ). But his speciality was genealogy in general and that of the Banū ¶ Hās̲h̲im and of the ʿAlawī branch i…

, abū ʿabd allāh muḥammad b. ḳāsim b. muḥammad b. ʿalī al-andalusī , Moroccan scholar of Ḳaysī origin and born in Fās in 938/1531-2. He is said to have been called al-Ḳaṣṣār (“the fuller”) because one of his ancestors had had a fuller as his tutor. He became Muftī of Fās and preacher at the Ḳarawiyyīn mosque, and was very well versed in the sources of ḥadīt̲h̲ and the science of genealogy. He had numerous, outstanding pupils, including for instance Abu ’l-ʿAbbās al-Murābī, who wrote a book about him called the Tuḥfat al-ik̲h̲wān . Al-Ḳaṣṣār left behind several valu…

Of Tunisian ancestry, but settled in Algeria, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. Saʿīd was, like his father, Saʿīd b. Ibrāhīm (d. S̲h̲awwāl 1066/July-Aug. 1656), the most learned man and greatest mufti of Algeria of his time. Amongst his most brilliant disciples was Abu ’l-Ḳāsim Muḥammad Ibn Zākūr al-Fāsī, to whom he was the last to grant an id̲j̲āza (beginning of Rad̲j̲ab 1094/26 June 1683). He died at Algiers on 15 D̲h̲u ’l-Ḥid̲j̲d̲j̲a 1098/12 Oct. 1687. (M. Lakhdar) Bibliography E. Lévi-Provençal, Chorfa, 288 and n. 5 Ḳādirī, Nas̲h̲r, ii, 93 idem, Iltiḳāṭ, fol. 40r idem, al-Nas̲h̲r al-kabīr, i…

, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-ʿArabī b. al-Ṭayyīb , Moroccan scholar very learned in history and genealogy. He had eminent teachers in the various branches of knowledge, notably ʿAbd al-Ḳādir al-Fāsī, his two sons Muḥammad and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī, and the ḳāḍī Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Fāsī. He frequented well-known mystics, amongst others Ḳāsim al-K̲h̲aṣāṣī, Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh Maʿn al-Andalusī, in whose company he made the pilgrimage, and Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Idrīs al-Yamanī. All his works are devoted to mysticism: al-Ṭurfa fi ’k̲h̲tiṣār al-Tuḥfa (…

, Abu ’l-ʿAbbās (and Abu ’l-Faḍāʾil) Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Ḳādir b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad , Moroccan mystic who was also a man of the pen and of the sword. He owed his education to his stay at the zāwiya of Dilāʾ, profiting from the teaching of qualified masters such as al-Yūsī. He made the pilgrimage twice, in 1083/1673 and in 1100/1689. During his first stay in the East, he followed courses given by doctors learned in Islamic sciences, amongst whom were: ʿAlī al-Ud̲j̲hurī, ʿAbd al-Bāḳī al-Zurḳānī, and Muḥammad al-K̲h̲irs̲h̲ī. At the end of his second journey he composed a riḥla with the title Nasmat al-ā…

, Abu ’l-Faḍl Ḳāsim b. al-Ḥād̲j̲d̲j̲ Ḳāsim b. Ḳāsim al-K̲h̲aṣāṣī . a Moroccan saint, member of the D̲j̲azūliyya order [ q.v.]. Originally from Andalusia, he owed his ethnic name to the town of al-K̲h̲aṣāṣa, which was situated on the al-Ḳalīʿa mountain on the Mediterranean coast. He was born at Fez in ca. 1002/1593-4, where he studied and had, in particular, Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh Maʿn al-Andalusī as his pupil. Al-Ḳādirī [ q.v.] devoted a work called al-Zahr al-bāsim to his manāḳib . He died at Fez on 19 Ramaḍān 1083/8 January 1673 and was buried in the mausoleum of al-As̲h̲yāk̲h̲. (M. Lakhdar) Bibl…

bint Bakkār b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Mag̲h̲āfirī , wife of Mawlāy Ismāʿīl, sultan of Morocco (1082-1139/1672-1727). She was highly versed in literature and the religious sciences and acted as an adviser to her royal spouse. In 1143/1731, during the reign of her sons Mawlāy ʿAbd Allāh, she performed the Pilgrimage; and at Mecca, she bought buildings and established them as awḳāf , in particular, a house in the Bāb al-ʿUmra, one of the gates of the Holy House, which she placed at the disposal of students. The memory of her sumptuous pilgrimage was commemorated by the s̲h̲ayk̲h̲ …

, the name by which is known the famous Moroccan popular poet ʿAbd al-Ḳādir b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Abi-lʾḲāsim al-Idrīsī al-ʿAlamī al-Ḥamdānī al-Ṭālibī al-ʿAbd al-Salāmī . He grew up in Meknes in an austere atmosphere, renouncing the pleasures of this world, spending his time visiting the tombs of the saints and enjoying the company of the pious. His teachers were al-Ḥād̲j̲d̲j̲ al-Muk̲h̲tār al-Baḳḳālī, ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān known as al-Ḏj̲amal. Mawlāy al-Ṭayyib al-Wazzānī, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Ṣiḳ…

, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b. Ḥusayn al-Tamgrūtī al-Darʿī al-Raḳḳī (from al-Raḳḳa [ q.v.], his native town), a very famous Moroccan saint. Born in the zāwiya of Sayyid al-Nās as it was called (from the name of the Prophet), the founder of which was Abū Isḥāḳ al-Anṣārī, known under the name of Sayyidī Ibrāhīm al-Ḥād̲j̲d̲j̲, he grew up there in prayer and asceticism. Accompanied by the son of this latter, Aḥmad, he went to the zāwiya of Tamgrūt, founded by Abū Ḥafṣ, ʿUmar b. Aḥmad al-Anṣārī, in Ramaḍān 983/Dec.-Jan. 1575-76, and settled there until his death on Friday 12 …

, Abū l-Faḍl Ḳāsim b. al-Ḥād̲j̲d̲j̲ Ḳāsim b. Ḳāsim al-K̲h̲aṣāṣī, saint marocain de la confrérie des Ḏj̲azūliyya [ q.v.]; originaire de l’Andalousie, il doit son ethnique à la ville d’al-Ḵh̲aṣāṣa, située sur la montagne al-Ḳalīʿa, au bord de la Méditerranée. Né à Fès vers 1002/1593-4, il y fit ses études et eut notamment pour disciple Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh Maʿn al-Andalusī. Al-Ḳādirī [ q.v.] consacra à ses manāḳib un ouvrage intitulé al-Zahr al-bāsim. Il mourut à Fās le 19 ramaḍān 1083/8 janv. 1673 et fut enterré dans le mausolée d’al-As̲h̲yāk̲h̲. (M. Lakhdar) Bibliography É. Lévi-Provença…

b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Mag̲h̲āfirī, épouse de Mawlāy Ismāʿīl, était très versée dans la littérature et les sciences religieuses et jouait le rôle de conseillère auprès de son royal époux. En 1143/1731, sous le règne de son fils Mawlāy ʿAbd Allāh, elle accomplit le pèlerinage à La Mekke, elle acheta des immeubles qu’elle fit ¶ établir en biens de mainmorte, notamment une maison à Bāb al-ʿUmra, l’une des portes de la Mosquée Sacrée, qu’elle mit à la disposition des étudiants. Le souvenir de ce somptueux pèlerinage a été commémoré par le s̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ḥus…

, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Ḳādir b. Aḥmad al-Gulālī al-Ḥasanī al-Idrīsī, jurisconsulte et lettré marocain (1216-65/1801-49) qui exerça pendant un certain temps la charge de ḳāḍī à Tanger. Il est l’auteur des ouvrages suivants: — 1. une fahrasa dans laquelle sont consignés les noms de ses maîtres ainsi que les id̲j̲āzas délivrées par certains d’entre eux, comme al-Kūhin et al-Damnātī; — 2. un commentaire d’Iṣṭilāḥ al-Ḳāmūs; — 3. un autre commentaire de l’introduction ( k̲h̲uṭba) de l’ Alfiyya d’Ibn Mālik; — 4. une histoire de la dynastie ʿalawide intitulée al-Durr al-munaḍḍad…

, Abū l-ʿAbbās (et Abū l-Faḍāʾil) Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Ḳādir b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad, mystique marocain doublé d’un homme de plume et d’épée. Il doit sa formation au séjour qu’il effectua à la zāwiya de Dilāʾ, profitant de l’enseignement de maîtres qualifiés tels qu’al-Yūsi. Il effectua deux fois le pèlerinage, en 1083/1673 et en 1100/1689. Pendant son premier séjour en Orient, 1 suivit les cours d’éminents docteurs es sciences slamiques, parmi lesquels ʿAlī al-Ud̲j̲hurī, ʿAbd al-Bāḳī ¶ al-Zurḳānī et Muḥammad al-Ḵh̲irs̲h̲ī. A la fin de son second voyage, il composa une riḥla intitulée Nasmat al…

, d’origine tunisienne établi en Algérie, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḫammad b. Saʿīd était, comme son père Saʿīd b. Ibrāhīm (m. s̲h̲awwāl 1066/juil.-août 1656), le plus grand érudit et muftī de l’Algérie à son époque. Parmi ses plus brillants disciples figure Abū l-Ḳāsim Muḥammad Ibn Zākūr al-Fāsī, à qui il fut le dernier à délivrer une id̲j̲āza (début rad̲j̲ab 1094/26 juin 1683). Il mourut à Alger le 15 d̲h̲ū l-ḥid̲j̲d̲j̲a 1098/22 oct. 1687. (M. Lakhdar) Bibliography É. Lévi-Provençal, Chorfa, 288 et n. 5 Ḳādirī, Nas̲h̲r, II, 93 le même, Iltiḳāt, 40 r° le même, al-Nas̲h̲r al-kabīr, II, 148 r° Joachim…

, Abū l-Ḥusayn ʿAlī b. Idrīs b. ʿAlī al-Ḥimyarī, jurisconsulte, poète et historien marocain, qui naquit et vécut à Fās où il composa un Dīwān, en un volume, une histoire intitulée Taḥḳīḳ al-k̲h̲abar ʿamman māta min ʿulamāʾ al-ḳarn al-t̲h̲ālit̲h̲ ʿas̲h̲ar, et surtout trois gloses, la plus importante sur le S̲h̲arḥ Bannānī ʿalā Sullam al-Ak̲h̲āḍrī, la deuxième sur al-Muwaḍḍiḥ d’Ibn His̲h̲ām et la troisième sur Bahrām al-Ṣagh̲īr. Il mourut à Fās le 13 rad̲j̲ab 1259/9 août 1843 et y fut enterré. (M. Lakhdar) Bibliography É. Lévi-Provençal, Chorfa, 369 et n. 4 Kattānī, Salwa, II, 265 ʿA. Ibn …

, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b. Ḥusayn al-Tamgrūtī al-Darʿī al-Raḳḳī (d’al-Raḳḳa [ q.v.] dont il était originaire), saint marocain de grande renommée. Né dans la zāwiya dite de Sayyid al-Nās (du nom du Prophète) et dont le fondateur est Abū Isḥāḳ al-Anṣārī, connu sous le nom de Sayyidī Ibrāhīm al-Ḥād̲j̲d̲j̲, il y grandit dans la dévotion et l’ascétisme. Accompagné du fils de ce dernier, Aḥmad, il se rendit à la . rāwiya de Tamgrūt, fondée par Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar b. Aḥmad al-Anṣārī, au mois de ramaḍān 983/déc. 1575-janv. 1576, et s’y fixa jusqu’à sa mort survenue le vendred…

, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-ʿArabī b. al-Ṭayyīb, savant marocain très versé en histoire et généalogie. Il eut d’éminents professeurs dans les différentes branches du savoir, notamment ʿAbd al-Ḳādir al-Fāsī, les deux fils de ce dernier Muḥammad et ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī et le ḳāḍī Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Fāsī. Il fréquenta de célèbres mystiques, entre autres Ḳāsim al-Ḵh̲aṣāṣī, Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh Maʿn al-Andalusī, en compagnie duquel il effectua le pèlerinage, et Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Idrīs al-Yamanī. Toutes ses œuvres sont consacrées au mysticisme: al-Ṭurfa fī k̲h̲tiṣār a…