Abu Muhammad Salih al-Majiri
Abu Muhammad Salih ibn Yansaran Said ibn Ghafiyyan ibn al-Haj Yahya al-Dukkali al-Majiri (Arabic: أبو محمد صالح) (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. 1180 to study in Alexandria, where he spent twenty years. In c. 1194,[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, ISBN 978-0-19-512058-5 , p. 51
- ↑ Vincent J. Cornell, Realm of the Saint, p. 140
- ↑ Saʻīdī, ʻAbd al-Salām, ed. (2013). al-Minhāj al-wāḍiḥ fī taḥqīq karāmāt Abī Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ (in العربية). p. 52.
- ↑ Saʻīdī, ʻAbd al-Salām, ed. (2013). al-Minhāj al-wāḍiḥ fī taḥqīq karāmāt Abī Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ (in العربية). p. 55.
- ↑ Saʻīdī, ʻAbd al-Salām, ed. (2013). al-Minhāj al-wāḍiḥ fī taḥqīq karāmāt Abī Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ (in العربية). p. 56.
- ↑ "The Ribats in Morocco and their influence in the spread of knowledge and tasawwuf". bewley.virtualave.net. Retrieved September 9, 2008.
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
