Al-Suhayli
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Sidi Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Rahman b. Abd Allah al-Suhayli (1114 – 1185), was born in Al-Andalus
, Fuengirola
(formerly called Suhayl) and died in Marrakesh. He is one of the seven saints of that city. Al-Suhayli wrote books on grammar and Islamic law. He is especially well known as an Islamic scholar by his commentary on the sira of Ibn Hisham
. Al-Suhayli came to Marrakesh around 1182 at the call of the Almohad
sultan
Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur. He died here three years later, and his zaouia
, in a cemetery just outside Bab er Robb
(with entrance only allowed to Muslims), hides a former gate in the wall called Bab el Charia. His tomb is visited yearly by many pilgrims. The cemetery Bab Ech Charia, walled today, is built at the place where the Almohad
troops of Abd El Moumen
defeated the Almoravids
in 1147.
Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus was the Arabic name given to a nation and territorial region also commonly referred to as Moorish Iberia. The name describes parts of the Iberian Peninsula and Septimania governed by Muslims , at various times in the period between 711 and 1492, although the territorial boundaries...
, Fuengirola
Fuengirola
Fuengirola, in ancient times known as Suel and then Suhayl, is a large town and municipality on the Costa del Sol in the province of Málaga, autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain. It is a major tourist resort, with more than 8 km of beaches, and home to a mediæval Moorish fortress...
(formerly called Suhayl) and died in Marrakesh. He is one of the seven saints of that city. Al-Suhayli wrote books on grammar and Islamic law. He is especially well known as an Islamic scholar by his commentary on the sira of Ibn Hisham
Ibn Hisham
Abu Muhammad 'Abd al-Malik bin Hisham , or Ibn Hisham edited the biography of Muhammad written by Ibn Ishaq. Ibn Ishaq's work is lost and is now only known in the recensions of Ibn Hisham and al-Tabari. Ibn Hisham grew up in Basra, Iraq, but moved afterwards to Egypt, where he gained a name...
. Al-Suhayli came to Marrakesh around 1182 at the call of the Almohad
Almohad
The Almohad Dynasty , was a Moroccan Berber-Muslim dynasty founded in the 12th century that established a Berber state in Tinmel in the Atlas Mountains in roughly 1120.The movement was started by Ibn Tumart in the Masmuda tribe, followed by Abd al-Mu'min al-Gumi between 1130 and his...
sultan
Sultan
Sultan is a title with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic language abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", and "dictatorship", derived from the masdar سلطة , meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it came to be used as the title of certain rulers who...
Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur. He died here three years later, and his zaouia
Zaouia
A zaouia or zawiya is an Islamic religious school or monastery. The term is Maghrebi and West African, roughly corresponding to the Eastern term madrassa...
, in a cemetery just outside Bab er Robb
Bab er Robb
Bab er Robb is a southern gate exit to the city of Marrakech, Morocco, near Bab Agnaou. It leads to the roads that lead to the mountain towns of Amizmiz and Asni....
(with entrance only allowed to Muslims), hides a former gate in the wall called Bab el Charia. His tomb is visited yearly by many pilgrims. The cemetery Bab Ech Charia, walled today, is built at the place where the Almohad
Almohad
The Almohad Dynasty , was a Moroccan Berber-Muslim dynasty founded in the 12th century that established a Berber state in Tinmel in the Atlas Mountains in roughly 1120.The movement was started by Ibn Tumart in the Masmuda tribe, followed by Abd al-Mu'min al-Gumi between 1130 and his...
troops of Abd El Moumen
Abd al-Mu'min
Abd al-Mu'min also known as Abdelmoumen El Goumi was a Zenata Berber prominent member of the Almohad movement. He became the first Caliph of the Almohad Empire .- Early life :...
defeated the Almoravids
Almoravids
The Almoravids were a Berber dynasty of Morocco, who formed an empire in the 11th-century that stretched over the western Maghreb and Al-Andalus. Their capital was Marrakesh, a city which they founded in 1062 C.E...
in 1147.
Works
- al-Rawḍ al-unuf fī šarḥ al-sīra al-Nabawiyya li-Ibn Hišām. wa-maʿahu al-Sīra al-NabawiyyaRaud al-UnufRaud al-Unuf is a book by the Islamic scholar Al-Suhayli.. It is a commentary on Ibn Hisham's As-Siratu Nabawiyyah....
(7 volumes), 1967 - al-Taʿrīf wa-al-iʿlām li-mā ubhima min al-Qurʾān min al-asmāʾ wa-al-aʿlām, Bayrut, 1987
- Translation in German: Die Kommentare des Suhailī und des Abū Ḍarr zu den Uḥud-Gedichten in der Sīra des Ibn Hišam, Schaade, Arthur 1908
External links
- The seven saints of Marrakesh (Images of the Sidi Shekir conference in Marrakesh) http://www.naqshbandi.org/events/morocco2004/09-12-2004/index120904.htm
- Image of his mausoleum http://www.emarrakech.info/Sidi-Souhaeil-le-Poete_a3999.html
- Image of his mausoleum http://www.marrakech-ville.com/sidi-souheili.php
- Comments from As-Suhayli and An-Nawawi on independent reasoning http://hoodshaykh.blogspot.com/2006/11/comments-from-as-suhayli-and-nawawi.html
- Discussion on how long Islam and the world in general will last http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ik/Muqaddimah/Chapter3/Ch_3_52.htm