Abu Imran al-Fasi

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Abu Imran Yaqub al-Fasi (died 1015) was a Moroccan, Maliki writer. He is regarded a saint by later Sufi mystics. He played an important role in the history of the Almoravid dynasty. It was his teaching in Qayrawan (Tunisia) that first stirred the Sanhaja.^[1][2] He wrote a commentary on the Mudawana of Sahnun.

Sidi Kadi Abul Fadl Iyyad (d. 544/1129), author of the Kitab Shifa bitarif huquq al-Mustapha (The Antidote in knowing the rights of the Chosen Prophet), hagiographied Abu Imran al-Fasi in his Tadrib a-Madarik (Exercising Perception), an encyclopaedia of Maliki scholars.

[edit] References

1. ^ William Montgomery Watt, A History of Islamic Spain, Edinburgh Press, 1996, ISBN 9780748608478 , p. 96
2. ^ "Rethinking the Almoravids", in: Julia Ann Clancy-Smith North Africa, Islam and the Mediterranean World, Routledge, 2001, p. 60-61

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• Dar-sirr.com [1] (retrieved on September 12, 2008)