Abu Muhammad Salih al-Majiri
Abu Muhammad Salih ibn Yansaran Said ibn Ghafiyyan ibn al-Haj Yahya al-Dukkali al-Majiri (Template:Langx) (sometimes spelled al-Magiri), simply known as Abu Muhammad Salih (1155–1234), was a Moroccan saint and one of the successors of Abu Madyan.[1] He was the patron saint of Safi and lived during the reign of the Almohad Caliphate.[2]
Biography
Salih was born in 1155 in the town of Asfi (Safi). His family were a Berber family that settled in Asfi in the mid 11th century. They belonged to the Banu Hayy, a sub-clan of the Banu Nasr, a clan of the Banu Magir, a Southern Masmuda Berber tribe.[3] He studied under Abu Abdallah Mohammed Amghar in Ribat Shakir.[4] He left Asfi in c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". to study in Alexandria, where he spent twenty years. In c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".,[5] he returned to Morocco and founded a ribat in Safi.[6]
References
- ↑ J. Spencer Trimingham, John O. Voll, The Sufi Orders in Islam, 1998, Template:ISBN , p. 51
- ↑ Vincent J. Cornell, Realm of the Saint, p. 140
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Bibliography
- Y. Benhima: "L’évolution du peuplement et l’organisation du territoire de la région de Safi à l’époque almohade", in: Los Almohades, Problemas y Perspectivas
- Abu Muhammad Silih, Al-Manaqib wa-l-ta'rikh, Rabat, 1990