Abu Mohammed Salih (also
Silih) or
Abu Mohammed Saleh ibn Yansaran Said ibn Gafiyan al-Doukkali al-Magiri (also
al-Majiri) (1153-1234) was a Sufi leader from
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and one of the successors of
Abu MadyanSidi Abu Madyan Shuayb ibn al-Hussein al-Ansari , also known as Sidi Bou Médine or Sidi Boumédiène, was a Sufi teacher, scholar and writer and poet. He is the single most important founder of Sufism in the Maghreb and Andalusia. Ibn Arabi called Abu Madyan "the teacher of teachers"...
. He was the patron saint of
SafiSafi is a city in western Morocco on the Atlantic Ocean. The capital of the Doukkala-Abda Region, it has a population of 284,750 , but is also the centre of an agglomeration which has an estimated 793,000 inhabitants ....
and lived during the reign of the Almohad dynasty. He spent twenty years in
AlexandriaAlexandria , with a population of 4.1 million, is the second-largest city in Egypt, and is the country's largest seaport, serving about 80% of Egypt's imports and exports...
and, when he returned to Morocco, founded a ribat in
SafiSafi is a city in western Morocco on the Atlantic Ocean. The capital of the Doukkala-Abda Region, it has a population of 284,750 , but is also the centre of an agglomeration which has an estimated 793,000 inhabitants ....
. The Sufi brotherhood of the Magiriyyun derives from him.
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Abu Mohammed Salih (also
Silih) or
Abu Mohammed Saleh ibn Yansaran Said ibn Gafiyan al-Doukkali al-Magiri (also
al-Majiri) (1153-1234) was a Sufi leader from
MoroccoMorocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 32 million and an area just under . Its capital is Rabat, and its largest city is Casablanca. Morocco has a coast on the Atlantic Ocean that reaches past the Strait of Gibraltar into the...
and one of the successors of
Abu MadyanSidi Abu Madyan Shuayb ibn al-Hussein al-Ansari , also known as Sidi Bou Médine or Sidi Boumédiène, was a Sufi teacher, scholar and writer and poet. He is the single most important founder of Sufism in the Maghreb and Andalusia. Ibn Arabi called Abu Madyan "the teacher of teachers"...
. He was the patron saint of
SafiSafi is a city in western Morocco on the Atlantic Ocean. The capital of the Doukkala-Abda Region, it has a population of 284,750 , but is also the centre of an agglomeration which has an estimated 793,000 inhabitants ....
and lived during the reign of the Almohad dynasty. He spent twenty years in
AlexandriaAlexandria , with a population of 4.1 million, is the second-largest city in Egypt, and is the country's largest seaport, serving about 80% of Egypt's imports and exports...
and, when he returned to Morocco, founded a ribat in
SafiSafi is a city in western Morocco on the Atlantic Ocean. The capital of the Doukkala-Abda Region, it has a population of 284,750 , but is also the centre of an agglomeration which has an estimated 793,000 inhabitants ....
. The Sufi brotherhood of the Magiriyyun derives from him. He wrote a
Talqin al-wird and the ribat in
SafiSafi is a city in western Morocco on the Atlantic Ocean. The capital of the Doukkala-Abda Region, it has a population of 284,750 , but is also the centre of an agglomeration which has an estimated 793,000 inhabitants ....
, where Abou Mohammed was buried, continued to play an important role until the end of the 15th century. One of Salih's teachers was
Abu Abdallah Mohammed AmgharMoulay Abul Mahasin Abu Abdallah Mohammed Amghar was a Moroccan Sufi saint during the reign of the Almoravid dynasty and the founder of the Taifa Sanhajiya, the earliest example of a Sufi order in the Maghrib. He is also the patron saint of Tit, a small village 12 kilometers from El Jadida...
from
El JadidaEl Jadida is a port city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, in the province of El Jadida. It has a population of 144,440...
.
There remains but one written work by Al-Maghri,
Bidayat al Mourid, a book on Tassawuf and the lives of certain sufi saints like Al-Maghri's teacher
Abu MadyanSidi Abu Madyan Shuayb ibn al-Hussein al-Ansari , also known as Sidi Bou Médine or Sidi Boumédiène, was a Sufi teacher, scholar and writer and poet. He is the single most important founder of Sufism in the Maghreb and Andalusia. Ibn Arabi called Abu Madyan "the teacher of teachers"...
. The life of Al-Magiri is described in
Al-Minhaj al-wadih, written by Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Magiri, a grandson of the saint.
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External links
Dar-sirr.com Sidi Abu Mohammed al-Majiri (d. 631/1216)
http://www.dar-sirr.com/Majiri.html (retrieved on September 9, 2008)