Abu Muhammad Salih al-Majiri
Maghrebi writer and Sufi saint (1155–1234)
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Abu Muhammad Salih ibn Yansaran Said ibn Ghafiyyan ibn al-Haj Yahya al-Dukkali al-Majiri (Arabic: أبو محمد صالح) (sometimes spelled al-Magiri), simply known as Abu Muhammad Salih (1155–1234), was a Maghrebi saint and one of the successors of Abu Madyan.[1] He was the patron saint of Safi and lived during the reign of the Almohad Caliphate.[2]
Abu Muhammad Salih al-Majiri | |
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Tomb in Safi | |
| Born | January 1, 1155 |
| Died | September 22, 1234 (aged 79) |
| Occupation | Writer |
Biography
Salih was born in 1155 in the town of Asfi (Safi). His family was a Berber family that settled in Asfi in the mid-11th century. They belonged to the Banu Hayy, a sub-clan of the Banu Nasr, a clan of the Banu Magir, a Southern Masmuda Berber tribe.[3] He studied under Abu Abdallah Mohammed Amghar in Ribat Shakir.[4] He left Asfi in c. 1180 to study in Alexandria, where he spent twenty years. In c. 1194,[5] he then founded a ribat in Safi (in present-day Morocco).[6]
