Ibn Hirzihim

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For the teacher of Ash-Shadhili see Ibn Harazim (d. 1235)

Abu Hasan Ali ibn Hirzihim/Harzihim or Abu 'l-Hasan Ali ibn Ismail ibn Mohammed ibn Abdallah ibn Hirzihim (also: Sidi Harazim) was born in Fes, Morocco and died in that same city in 559/1164.[1] He was a Sufi teacher, leader of a Ghazalian zawiya in Fes and was the spiritual master of Abu Madyan. Ibn Hirzihim was largely responsible for the propagation of the works of Al-Ghazali in northwest Africa. He taught at he Qarawiyin University of Fes and openly criticized the strict orthodoxy of the Almoravid dynasty. Ibn Hirzihim received his teachings from Abu Muhammad ibn Saalih ibn Hirzihim, his uncle, (d. 505/1112) who took it from Al-Ghazali. He was buried at the Bab Ftouh (south-eastern gate) cemetery of Fes. The water source "Sidi Harazim" was called after him.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Biographical Encyclopaedia of Sufis : Africa and Europe/N. Hanif. New Delhi, Sarup, 2002, ISBN 81-7625-267-0.

[edit] Bibiliography

  • Abu Yaqub Yusuf ibn al-Zayyat al-Tadili (d. 1230/1), Kitab al-tashawuf ila rijal al-tasawwuf (Rabat, 1997)
  • The way of Abu Madyan, Appendix I: text and translation of "al-Qasida al-Nuniyya", a work attributed to ‘Ali ibn Hirzihim, 1996, ISBN 0946621357


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