Ibn Kiran
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Muhammad al-Tayyib ibn Kiran (Arabic: محمد الطيب بن كيران; 1172/1758-1227/1812) was a Moroccan, religious scholar from Fes. He also played an active political role.
Ibn Kiran is the author of Risala bn Saud, a response, written at the request of the sultan mulay Slimane, to the manifesto of the Wahhabis.[1] He has written several commentaries, including one on al-Ghazali's Ihya and another on the Alfiyya of Ibn Malik. He also wrote Iqd nafais alla-ali fi tahrik al-himam al-awali, a popular religious work. Ibn Kiran was a teacher at Al-Qarawiyyin University and the teacher of Ahmad Ibn Idris Al-Fasi and Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi.[2]
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References
- ^ Rex S. O'Fahey (1990). Enigmatic saint: Ahmad ibn Idris and the Idrisi tradition. Northwestern University Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-8101-0910-0. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
- ^ Knut S. Vikør (November 1995). Sufi and scholar on the desert edge: Muḥammad b. ʻAlī al-Sanūsī and his brotherhood. Northwestern University Press. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-8101-1226-1. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
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