Abdallah al-Ghazwani

{{Short description|16th century Muslim saint of Morocco}}

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| name = Abdallah al-Ghazwani
عبد الله الغزواني

| birth_place = Ksar al-Kabir, Morocco

| death_date = 1529

| death_place = Marrakesh, Morocco

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Abu Mohammed Abdallah al-Ghazwani ({{Langx|ar|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.Vincent Cornell, Realm of the Saint, Power and Authority in Moroccan Sufism (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998), pp. 219, 227. Al-Ghazwani was also renowned for his skill in sinking wells and constructing channels. He established a Sufi order in Fnideq.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

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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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Category:Moroccan Sufi writers

Category:Year of birth unknown

Category:1529 deaths

Category:People from Marrakesh

Category:16th-century Moroccan people

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