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Sidi El Hassane Debbarh says in Dar-Sirr.com, The Tijaniya has also flourished in Central Asia as far as India. However it did not reach Indonesia until the late 1920s thanks of the efforts of the Medina-born wandering scholar, Sidi Ali b. Abdellah b. Mustapha Tayyeb al-Azhari, who had been himsel...

The rise of Shaykh Imam Sidi Abdellah ibn Yassin Jazouli (d. 451/1036) started with the pilgrimage to Makkah by Yahya b. Ibrahim, the chief of the Moroccan Judala Sanhaja tribe. In course of this trip the level of ignorance and the extent of unconformity with the Shari’a prevalent in his community ...

The most important proponent of institutionalized Malikism in the tenth/ fourth century Morocco was the grand Fasite legist, Abu Imran Yaqub al-Fasi (d. 430/1015) a contemporary of Abi Yazid al-Qayrawani, who was to become the spiritual father of the al-Murabitun movement (Almoravids). Born between ...

The earliest saints of Fez were a group of juridically trained ascetics and legal experts who were known as "anchors of the earth" (awtad al-ard). They were given this appellation because they acted metaphorically as tent pegs (watad, pl. awtad) in "holding down" or maintaining t...

The Poles of Amghar in Tit al-Fitr.jpg The history of one of the earliest and most important ribats of Morocco –Tit al-Fitr, located on the Atlantic coast some eight kilometres south of the modern city of El Jadida–is detailed in a fourteenth-century manuscript entitled Bahjat an-nadhirin wa uns ...

Few of Shaykh Sidi Abu Madyan al-Ghawt's (d. 594/1179) disciples were doctrinal innovators. Instead, most were content to provide training for their students and to spread their master's brand of socially conscious mysticism from al-Andalus to Egypt. An exception was a Masmuda Shaykh from central Mo...

Apart from the Majiriya Sufi order of Abu Mohammed Salih Majiri (d. 631/1216), one other Moroccan Sufi order in the tradition of Shaykh Abu Madyan (d. 594/1179) deserves mention. This brotherhood, which was called at-Taifa al-Hahiya after its founder, Sidi Abu Zakariyya al-Hahi (d. end of seventh/th...

It was more than half a century after the death of Abul Hassan Shadhili (d. 656/1241) before the influence of Egyptian Shadhilism was felt in Morocco. In the year 745/1344, one Sidi Abu Uthman al-Hassani, a Shadhili Sufi and sharif who had studied in Egypt, was reported to be in attendance at the co...

An important step in establishing the Shadhiliya in the Maghreb was taken when Abul Hassan inherited the title of Axis of the Age (Qutb az-zaman) from the Egyptian Sufi Sidi Abul Hajjaj al-Uqsuri (d. 642/1244). Abul Hajjaj, who presided over a ribat inside of the ancient temple of Amon a Luxor, had ...

Upon the death of Sidna al-Imam Moulay Idriss II, he left twelve sons, who were sent throughout Morocco by their grandmother Kanza to proliferate the Idrissi-Hassanid sharifism. One Idrissite imam, however, became through his descendents an important figure in the development of the sharifian paradi...