Abu Yahya ibn al-Sakkak

{{Short description|Moroccan historian, genealogist, judge, Maliki scholar and Sufi mystic}}

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| name = Abu Yahya ibn al-Sakkak

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| birth_place = Fez, Morocco

| death_date = 22 May 1415

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| nationality = Moroccan

| occupation = Historian, Genealogist, Judge, Maliki Scholar, Sufi Mystic

| known_for = Author of Nush muluk al-islam bi-al-tarif bi-ma yajibu alay-him min huquq ila bayt al-kiram

| era = 14th-15th century

| school_tradition = Maliki

| main_interests = Islamic jurisprudence, Sufism

| notable_ideas = Skepticism about the divine right claimed by rulers

| influences = Ibn Khaldun, al-Sharif al-Tilimsani

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Abu Yahya ibn al-Sakkak al-Miknasi ({{Langx|ar|ابن السكاك المكناسي}}) (full name: Abu Yahya or Abu Abd Allah Mohammed ibn Abu Ghalib ibn Ahmad ibn Mohammed ibn Abu-l-Hasan Ali ibn Mohammed ibn as-Sakkak al-Miknasi; d. 22 May 1415), was a Moroccan historian, genealogist, judge, Maliki scholar and Sufi mystic. He was born in Fez into the Ibn al-Sakkak family, a Berber family from the Miknasa tribe. He was a friend of Ibn Khaldun, they both studied under al-Sharif al-Tilimsani.{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Ibn al-Sakkak, Muhammad ibn Abi Ghalib|year=2002|encyclopedia=Ma'lamat al-Maghrib (Encyclopedia of Morocco)|first=Mohamed|last=Hajji|volume=15|editor1-last=Toufiq|editor1-first=Ahmed|editor2-last=Hajji|editor2-first=Mohamed|publisher=al-Jamī‘a al-Maghribiyya li-l-Ta’līf wa-l-Tarjama wa-l-Nashr|editor-link=Ahmed Toufiq|language=ar|page=5028}} al-Sakkak was especially well known as author of an advice to Muslim kings, Nush muluk al-islam bi-al-tarif bi-ma yajibu alay-him min huquq ila bayt al-kiram.M. Ben Chekroun, La Vie intellectuelle marocaine sous les Mérinides et les Wattasides, 1974, pp. 368-72 In his advice Ibn Sakkak expressed skepticism about the divine right claimed by some rulers in his time.Saida, Sqalli Houssini, Thesis, Contribution à l'Étude du discours politico-réligieux sous les derniers Mérinides: les Lettres d'Ibn Abbad de Ronda au Sultan Abu Faris et le Nush Muluk al-Islam d'Ibn As-Sakkak., 1992

Ibn Sakkak is also the author of Kitab al-Uslub min-al-kalam ‘ala la hawla wa-la quwwata illa billah (known as Kitab al-Asalib), the first book about the Tariqa Shadhiliyya in Morocco, in which he used the name "Shadhili" for Ibn Abbad al-Rundi (d. 792/1377).Éric Geoffroy, Une voie soufie dans le monde:la Shâdhiliyya, p.75