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al-T̲h̲amīnī al-Isd̲j̲anī , celebrated Ibāḍī scholar, b. c. 1130/1717-8, probably at Ward̲j̲lān (Ouargla), d. Rad̲j̲ab 1223/August 1808, at Banū Isd̲j̲an (Beni Isguen) in the Mzab, where, at the age of about forty, he had begun his studies under the s̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Abū Zakariyyāʾ Yaḥyā b. Ṣāliḥ, of Ḏj̲arba. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz is held by the Ibāḍīs to-day to be one of the greatest scholars who ever lived in the Mzab, where he has left the reputation of a man of fervent piety, remarkable sagacity, great imperturbability, perfect self-control, and astonishing assiduity. He devoted himself to the…

, Yaḥyā b. al-Ḵh̲ayr , Ibāḍī scholar from the Ḏj̲abal Nafūsa. He was a native of Id̲j̲nāwun (modern Djennaouen, near Djado, in the eastern part of the Ḏj̲abal Nafūsa; cf. J. Despois, Le Djebel Nefousa , Paris 1935, 213 and passim). Al-S̲h̲ammāk̲h̲ī mentions him amongst the personages of the 6th/12th century. He was the grandson of another Ibāḍī scholar from the Ḏj̲abal Nafu̲sa, Abu ’l-Ḵh̲ayr Tūzīn al-Ḏj̲anāwunī, contemporary of the s̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Abu ’l-Ḵh̲ayr Tūzīn al-Zawāg̲h̲ī. As the latter lived under the reign of the Zīrid al-Muʿizz b. Bādīs (406-54/1016-62; see al-S̲h̲ammāk̲h̲ī, al-…

, Ibāḍī scholar, probably a native of the Ḏj̲abal Nafūsa, mentioned in al-S̲h̲ammāk̲h̲īʾs K. al-Siyar (Cairo 1301, 561-2), in a short note that gives no chronological information, but from which it may be deduced that he lived at the end of the 8th/14th or the beginning of the 9th/15th century. He translated into Arabic the old ʿAḳīda of the Ibāḍīs of the Mag̲h̲rib, originally composed in Berber. This translation was in use, at the time of al-S̲h̲ammāk̲h̲ī (d. 928/1521-2)) in the island of Ḏj̲arba and in the other Ibāḍī communit…

al-nad̲j̲īsī , Ibāḍī imām in the Mag̲h̲rib. The orthodox Arab historians represent him as a mere leader of Berber rebels. His role, however, was more defined, as he was given by the Ibāḍīs of Tripolitania the title of imām al-difāʿ (" imām of defence"). According to the chronicle of Abū Zakariyyāʾ al-Ward̲j̲lānī, this revolt took place in Rad̲j̲ab 145/Sept.-Oct. 762, only one year after the death of Abu ’l-Ḵh̲aṭṭāb. According to al-S̲h̲ammāk̲h̲ī, al-Siyar , Cairo 1301, 134, Abū Ḥātim’s, government began in (1)54 A. H. It is, however, possible that this is a mistake for 145. Little is known…

, Yaḥyā b. Abī Bakr , historian of the Ibāḍīs of the Mag̲h̲rib. The Ibāḍi chroniclers al-Dard̲j̲īnī (7th/13th century) and al-S̲h̲ammāk̲h̲ī (d. 928/1522) who took the chronicle of Abū Zakariyyāʾ as the basis for their own works, give but scanty details about him and do not indicate the date either of his birth or of his death. From al-Dard̲j̲īnī it is known at least that he was a native of Ward̲j̲lān (Ouargla) and that he studied in the Wādī Rīg̲h̲ (Oued Righ) under the Ibāḍī s̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Abu ’l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān b. Ik̲h̲laf al-Mazātī (d. 4…