Moulay Abul Mahasin Abu Abdallah Mohammed Amghar () (ca 1060) was a Moroccan idriside Sufi saint during the reign of the
Almoravid dynasty
The Almoravid dynasty ( ar, المرابطون, translit=Al-Murābiṭūn, lit=those from the ribats) was an imperial Berber Muslim dynasty centered in the territory of present-day Morocco. It established an empire in the 11th century tha ...
and the founder of the Taifa Sanhajiya, the earliest example of a
Sufi order in the Maghrib. He is also the patron saint of Tit, a small village 12 kilometers from
El Jadida
El Jadida (, ; originally known in Berber as Maziɣen or Mazighen; known in Portuguese as Mazagão) is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, located 96 km south of the city of Casablanca, in the province of El Jadida and the ...
. After 1083 Abu Abdallah became head of Ribat Tit-n-Fitr,
[*Museum with no frontiers: The ribat of Tit (El-Jadida) http://www.discoverislamicart.org/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;ma;Mon01;33;en] which was founded by his father Abu Jaafar Amghar. His son and successor Sidi Abu Abdelkhaliq Amghar (d. 614/1199), enjoyed a close relationship with the Almohad caliph
Yaqub al-Mansur
Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb ibn Yūsuf ibn Abd al-Muʾmin al-Manṣūr (; c. 1160 – 23 January 1199 Marrakesh), commonly known as Yaqub al-Mansur () or Moulay Yacoub (), was the third Almohad Caliph. Succeeding his father, al-Mansur reigned from 11 ...
, who supported Ribat Tit al-Fitr financially. One of Abu Abdallah's descendants (shaykh Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Amghar as-Saghir) was the spiritual master of
Al-Jazuli. A moussem in honour of Moulay Abu Abdallah Amghar is celebrated each year in
El Jadida
El Jadida (, ; originally known in Berber as Maziɣen or Mazighen; known in Portuguese as Mazagão) is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, located 96 km south of the city of Casablanca, in the province of El Jadida and the ...
.
External links
*Darr-sir.com: ''Moroccan Maraboutism'', see "5. Ribat Tit al-Fitr
retrieved on 04-22-2008*The moussem of El Jadida (mainly in French
retrieved on 04-22-2008
References
*Ahmet T. Karamustafa, ''Sufism: The Formative Period'', p148
*Vincent J. Cornell, ''Realm of the Saint: Power and Authority in Moroccan Sufism'' 1998, p. 45
*The famous scholar Ibn Qunfudh also wrote on Abdallah Amghar. The book of his journeys in Morocco is entitled Uns al-faqir wa 'izz al-haqir, "the Convivial Company of the Wandering Poor and the Honorable Strength of the Contemptible." It can be found in the Royal Archives in Rabat: Bibliothèque Royal de Rabat N° 365, Madrid N° 186 (1406), Le Caire N°46. Bibliothèque Royal Rabat 8288-5354-3978
Moroccan Sufis
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Berber Moroccans
11th-century Berber people
Berber Muslims