Abu Imran Musa ibn Isa ibn abi hajj (or hajjaj) al-Fasi () (also simply known as Abu Imran al-Fasi; born between 975 and 978, died 8 June 1039) was a Moroccan Maliki ''

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'' born at

Fez Fez most often refers to: * Fez (hat), a type of felt hat commonly worn in the Ottoman Empire * Fez, Morocco (or Fes), the second largest city of Morocco Fez or FEZ may also refer to: Media * ''Fez'' (Frank Stella), a 1964 painting by the moder ...

to a

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family whose ''

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'' is impossible to reconstruct. Abu Imran al-Fasi was probably born between 975 and 978 at Fes. He went to

Ifriqiya Ifriqiya ( '), also known as al-Maghrib al-Adna ( ar, المغرب الأدنى), was a medieval historical region comprising today's Tunisia and eastern Algeria, and Tripolitania (today's western Libya). It included all of what had previously ...

, where he settled in

Kairouan Kairouan (, ), also spelled El Qayrawān or Kairwan ( ar, ٱلْقَيْرَوَان, al-Qayrawān , aeb, script=Latn, Qeirwān ), is the capital of the Kairouan Governorate in Tunisia and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city was founded by th ...

and studied under al-Kabisi (died 1012). With al-Kabisi, he introduced the young

Ibn Sharaf Ibn Sharaf al-Qayrawānī (; Anno Domini, AD 1000–1067

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was an Arabs, Arab Muslim writer and court poet who served first the Zīrids in Ifrīqiya (Africa) and later various sovereigns in al-Andalus (Spain). He wrote in ...

to poetry. Some time later, he stayed in Cordova with

Ibn Abd al-Barr Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, Abū ʿUmar al-Namarī al-Andalusī al-Qurṭubī al-Mālikī, commonly known as Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr ( ar, ابن عبد البر)

and followed the lectures of various scholars there, which his biographers list. He is regarded a saint by later

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mystics. He played an important role in the history 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 that s ...

. It was his teaching in

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(

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) that first stirred Yahya ibn Ibrahim, who was returning from the Pilgrimage and attended Abu Imran's courses. This inspired the foundation of the Almoravids."Rethinking the Almoravids", in: Julia Ann Clancy-Smith ''North Africa, Islam and the Mediterranean World'', Routledge, 2001, p. 60-61 He wrote a commentary on the

Mudawana The ''Mudawana Ousra'' (or ''Moudawana Ousra'', ar, المدوّنة, lit=code), short for ''mudawwanat al-aḥwāl al-ousaria-shakhṣiyyah'' (, ), is the personal status code, also known as the family code, in Moroccan law. It concerns issu ...

Sahnun Sahnun ibn Sa'id ibn Habib at-Tanukhi () (c. 776/77 – 854/55) (160 AH – 240 AH ) was a jurist in the Maliki school from Qayrawan in modern-day Tunisia. Biography His original name was Abdu Salaam Ibn Said Ibn Habib () He gained the nickna ...

Qadi Ayyad ʿIyāḍ ibn Mūsā (1083–1149) ( ar, القاضي عياض بن موسى, formally Abū al-Faḍl ʿIyāḍ ibn Mūsā ibn ʿIyāḍ ibn ʿAmr ibn Mūsā ibn ʿIyāḍ ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mūsā ibn ʿIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣubī ...

(d.544/1129), author of the ''Kitab Shifa bitarif huquq al-Mustapha'' (''The Antidote in knowing the rights of the Chosen Prophet''), hagiographied Abu Imran al-Fasi in his ''Tadrib a-Madarik'' (''Exercising Perception''), an encyclopaedia of Maliki scholars.

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970s births 1039 deaths Asharis Berber writers Moroccan Maliki scholars People from Fez, Morocco 10th-century Berber people 11th-century Berber people Berber scholars 11th-century Moroccan writers 10th-century Arabs 11th-century Arabs 11th-century Muslim theologians {{Morocco-writer-stub

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