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Abdallah al-Ghazwani

Abdallah al-Ghazwani

16th century Muslim saint of Morocco

Abu Mohammed Abdallah al-Ghazwani (Arabic: أبو محمد عبد الله الغزواني) (died in 1529) was a Sufi saint from Morocco in the tradition of al-Jazuli and ash-Shadhili. He was the successor of Abdelaziz al-Tebaa. Some two hundred years after his death he became one of the Sabaatou rijales, the seven saints of Marrakesh. Abdallah al-Ghazwani wrote on the idea of the Tariqa Muhammadiyya.[1] Al-Ghazwani was also renowned for his skill in sinking wells and constructing channels.[2]

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The Mausoleum and zawiya of Sidi al-Ghazwani (or Moulay al-Ksour) in Marrakesh

Notes

  1. [1]
    Vincent Cornell, Realm of the Saint, Power and Authority in Moroccan Sufism (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998), pp. 219, 227.
  2. [2]
    Francisco Rodriguez-Manas, Agriculture, Sūfism and the State in Tenth/Sixteenth-Century Morocco, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 59, No. 3 (1996), pp. 450-471

References

  • Hasan Jallab, Abu Muhammad Abdullah Al Ghazwani, Morocco: Imprimerie et Papeterie Nationale, 2005 (Biography of Al Ghazwani) ISBN 978-9954-0-0405-0


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