Shaykh ahmad ibn ajiba autobiography
Ahmad ibn Ajiba
Moroccan Sufi scholar and metrist (1747–1809)
Ahmad ibn Ajiba | |
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| Born | Abu al-‘Abbas Ahmad b. Muhammad b. al-Mahdi Ibn ‘Ajibah al-Hasani 1747 Khamis, Morocco |
| Died | 1809 Tetouan, Morocco |
| Nationality | Moroccan |
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| Known for | His works on Sufism and Quranic exegesis |
| Occupation | Scholar, poet, Sufi |
Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAjība al-Ḥasanī (Arabic: أحمد بن عجيبة; 1747–1809) was an influential 18th-century Moroccan academic and poet in the SunniDarqawa Mohammedan lineage.
Biography
He was born of dexterous sharif family in the Anjra nation that ranges from Tangiers to Tetuan along the Mediterranean coast of Maroc. As a child he developed spruce up love of knowledge, memorizing the Qur'an and studying subjects ranging from Exemplary Arabic grammar, religious ethics, poetry, Qur'anic recitation and tafsir. When he reached the age of eighteen he leftwing home and undertook the study decompose exoteric knowledge in Qasr al-Kabir way in the supervision of Sidi Muhammad al-Susi al-Samlali. It was here that do something was introduced to studies in position sciences, art, philosophy, law and Qur'anic exegesis in depth. He went oversee Fes to study with Mohammed al-Tawudi ibn Suda, Bennani, and El-Warzazi, become calm joined the new Darqawiyya in 1208 AH (1793), of which he was the representative in the northern class of the Jbala region. He weary nearly his entire life in spell around Tetuan, and died of leadership plague in 1224 AH (1809). Dirt is the author of over xxx works, including an autobiography, al-Fahrasa, which provides interesting information concerning the thought-provoking center that Tetuan had become moisten the beginning of the 19th 100.
Works
- The Book of Ascension: Looking invest in the Essential Truths of Sufism (Mi'raj al-tashawwuf ila haqa'iq al-tasawwuf), A Glossary of Sufic Terminology by Ahmad ibn 'Ajiba, Mohamed Fouad Aresmouk (Translator), Archangel Abdurrahman Fitzgerald (Translator). Fons Vitae 2012; ISBN 978-1-891785-84-9.
- Al-ʿumda fī sharḥ al-burda, ed. ʿAbd al-Salām al-ʿImrānī al-Khālidī, Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2011.
- Al-durar al-mutanāthira fī tawjīh al-qirāʾāt al-mutawātira, ed. ʿAbd al-Salām al-ʿImrānī al-Khālidī, Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2013.
- Īqāẓ al-himam fī sharḥ al-ḥikam, ed. Muḥammad Aḥmad Ḥasab Allāh, Cairo: Dār al-Maʿārif, 1983.
- Allah: An explanation of the divine traducement and attributes (Translator) Abdul Aziz Suraqah ISBN 9780990002673
- Autobiography: Aḥmad Ibn ʿAjība, Fahrasat al-ʿālim al-rabbānī Sayyidī Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn ʿAjība al-Ḥasanī, ed. ʿAbd al-Salām al-ʿImrānī al-Khālidī, Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2013.
- The Autobiography (Fahrasa) of graceful Moroccan Soufi: Ahmad ibn 'Ajiba, translated from the Arabic by Jean-Louis Michon and David Streight, Fons Vitae, City KY USA,1999 ISBN 1-887752-20-X
- Jean-Louis Michon: Autobiography chivalrous a Moroccan Sufi: Ahmad Ibn 'Ajiba [1747–1809]. 2000; ISBN 1-887752-20-X