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Ḳābādū

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Author(s): Ferjani, M.Ch.
, Maḥmūd b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar (1230-88/1815-71), poet, man of letters and religious figure, and one of the precursors of reform in Tunisia. After having learnt the Ḳurʾān, Arabic language and the rudiments of fiḳh , he left the kuttāb or Ḳurʾān school and plunged into individual readings of the mystics, and especially, the writings of Ibn al-ʿArabī [ q.v.]. Under this influence, he spent his youthful life as a dervish. At the age of 18, his wanderings took him as far as Libya, where at Misrāṭa he met a famed Ṣūfī master, the s̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Muḥammad āfir al-Madanī (d. 1854). In this s̲h̲ayk…

Ḳābādū

(1,502 words)

Author(s): Ferjani, M.Ch.
, Maḥmūd b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar, (1230-88/1815-71), poète, homme de lettres et de religion, un des précurseurs du réformisme en Tunisie. Après avoir appris le Ḳurʿān, la langue arabe et des rudiments fiḳh, il quitta le kuttāb (école coranique de base) pour se plonger dans des lectures solitaires d’écrits mystiques, en particulier ceux d’Ibn ʿArabī. Influencé par ses lectures, il mena, tout jeune, une vie de derviche. A dix huit ans, son errance l’amena jusqu’en Libye où il rencontra à Musrāṭa, un maître ṣūfī renommé, le s̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Muḥammad Ẓāfir al-Madanī (m. 1854). Il re…