Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine
{{Short description|Algerian theologian and sufi (died 1790s)}}
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{{Infobox religious biography
| name = Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine
| image = Marabout Sidi M'hamed Alger.jpg
| caption = Mausoleum of Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine
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| birth_place = Djurdjura, Kabylie, Algeria
| death_date = 1793/1794
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| religion = Islam
| denomination= Sunni
| creed = Ash'ari
| main_interests = Sufism, Islamic jurisprudence
| notable_works = Founder of the Rahmaniyya Sufi order
| influences = Muhammad ibn Salim al-Hafnawi
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| alma_mater = Al-Azhar University
| occupation = Scholar, Sufi Saint
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Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Gashtuli al-Jurjuri al-Azhari Abu Qabrayn ({{Langx|ar|محمد بن عبد الرحمن القشطولي الجرجري الأزهري بوقبرين}}; died in 1793/1794), mostly known as Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine ({{langx|ar|سيدي محمد بو قبرين}}) was a Berber ash'ari 'alim, founder of the Rahmaniyya Sufi order and is one of the seven Patron Saints of Algiers.{{cite news|title=Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine le saint aux deux tombeaux|author=Bentaleb, Mohamed|url=http://www.elmoudjahid.com/fr/actualites/15560|newspaper=El Moudjahid|date=August 16, 2011|access-date=May 3, 2013|archive-date=January 31, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131024053/http://www.elmoudjahid.com/fr/actualites/15560|url-status=live}} The Sidi M'Hamed District in Algiers and the municipality of the same name, Sidi M'Hamed, are both named after him.
Biography
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Muhammad was born to the Berber Ayt Smail tribe of the Gashtula tribal confederation in the Djurdjura, Kabylie.{{Cite book|last=Clancy-Smith|first=Julia A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vaQwDwAAQBAJ|title=Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904)|publisher=University of California Press|year=1997|isbn=978-0-520-21216-9|pages=40|language=en|access-date=2020-06-05|archive-date=2020-06-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607142244/https://books.google.com/books?id=vaQwDwAAQBAJ|url-status=live}} After studying at his home, he went to Algiers to continue his studies. In 1740, he went to make the pilgrimage to Mecca. Returning from the pilgrimage, he stayed in Cairo, where he studied in the Al-Azhar madrasa. It was in this madrasa that he was initiated to the Khalwatiyya order under his teacher Muhammad ibn Salim al-Hafnawi. Under his teacher's orders, Muhammad started propagating the tariqa to India and the Sudan. After thirty years, he returned to Algeria, where he started preaching it among his people and founded a zawiya in his natal village.{{Cite encyclopedia|year=1995|editor1-link=Bernard Lewis|editor4-first=J.|editor4-last=Schacht|editor3-link=Charles Pellat|editor3-first=C.|editor3-last=Pellat|editor2-link=Victor Louis Ménage|editor2-first=V. L.|editor2-last=Ménage|editor1-first=B.|editor1-last=Lewis|isbn=9004098348|title=Raḥmāniyya|page=399|volume=VIII|edition=2nd|publication-place=Leiden, Netherlands|first=D.S.|last=Margoliouth|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/rahmaniyya-COM_0903|publisher=E. J. BRILL|encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of Islam|editor4-link=Joseph Schacht|access-date=2020-06-05|archive-date=2020-06-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605025440/https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/rahmaniyya-COM_0903|url-status=live}}
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Category:18th-century Berber people
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Category:18th-century Algerian people
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