Abū Shu'ayb ad-Dukkālī as-Sadīqī (; 1878–1937) was a Moroccan scholar, minister, educator, and pioneer of

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in Morocco. He was referred to by the title

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Biography

He was born in 1878 to a modest family from a rural area called as-Sadiqat () near al-Gharbiya in Dukkala. His family was affiliated with the

Darqawi The Darqawiyya or Darqawi Sufi order is a revivalist branch of the Shadhiliyah brotherhood which originated in Morocco. The Darqawa comprised the followers of Sheikh Muhammad al-Arabi al-Darqawi (1760–1823) of Morocco. The movement, which became ...

Sufi order and studied Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari's . He studied at

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in Cairo and lectured at Al-Azhar and at az-Zaytuna in

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. Among his students was Muhammad al-Mukhtar as-Susi. He headed the program of study in the royal palace under Sultans Abd al-Hafid, Yusuf, and

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. He was among a number of Moroccan scholars—including Allal al-Fassi, Muhammad al-Mukhtar as-Susi, and —that led a nationalist, reformist

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that was intellectually affiliated with the opposed to

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Legacy

Chouaib Doukkali University Chouaib Doukkali University is a public university in El Jadida, Morocco, founded by a royal decree ( Dahir) in 1985. The university is named after the Moroccan scholar, theologian, and politician Abou Chouaib Doukkali (1878–1937). Organizati ...

in al-Jadida bears his name.

References

Moroccan Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam 1878 births 1937 deaths Al-Azhar University alumni