Ali ibn Harzihim

For the town in Morocco, see Sidi Harazem, Morocco.

For the teacher of Ash-Shadhili, see Abu Abdallah ibn Harzihim.

Sidi Ali ibn Harzihim (Arabic: علي بن حرزهم) or Abul Hasan Ali ibn Ismail ibn Mohammed ibn Abdallah ibn Harzihim/Hirzihim (also: Sidi Hrazem or Sidi Harazim) was born in Fes, Morocco and died in that same city in 559/1163.^[1] He was a berber^[2] Sufi teacher, leader of a Ghazalian zawiya in Fes and was the spiritual master of Abu Madyan. The water source "Sidi Harazim" was called after him.

Notes

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1. Biographical Encyclopaedia of Sufis : Africa and Europe/N. Hanif. New Delhi, Sarup, 2002, ISBN 81-7625-267-0.
2. Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku; Gates, Henry Louis (2012). Dictionary of African Biography. OUP USA. p. 64. ISBN 9780195382075.
3. Michaux-Bellaire, Édouard; Péretié, A. (December 1911). "Les Marabouts (2)". Revue du monde musulman. 16 (12): 138.
4. Mercedes García-Arenal, Messianism And Puritanical Reform: Mahdis of the Muslim West, translated by Martin Beagles, Brill, 2006 ISBN 90-04-15051-X, 9789004150515, p. 113

Bibliography

• 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 0-946621-35-7

External links

• Dar sirr.com