ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Waghlīsī (Arabic: عبد الرحمن الوغليسي) (died 1384), also spelled Abderrahmane El Waghlissi or Abd-ar-Rahman El Oughlissi, was a Muslim scholar, author, mufti and

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Biography

Sources on the life of al-Waghlīsī remain scarce. We do not know his exact date of birth, but we do know he was born in the village of Tala-Tagouth, near

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, into the tribe of at Waghlis, in the current daïra of

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. He is best known for writing a treatise on jurisprudence: ''al-Muqaddima al-Fiqhiyya'', famous throughout the Maghreb, Andalusia and Egypt under the name ''al-Waghlisiyya''. This text remained among the region's premier books of teaching Maliki fiqh and Sufism for centuries and has been commented on by many famous scholars (Abdelkrim az-Zwawi,

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al-Barnusi, Abu Abdellah as- Senussi). He is buried in the village of Tala n'Tagouth, in the present ''wilaya'' of Bejaia, where a

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was erected to him as well as a small mosque that bears his name. A symposium was dedicated to him in Bejaia in October 2004.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Abdurrahman El-Waghlissi Algerian Maliki scholars 1384 deaths Year of birth unknown