Abu Yaaza Yalnour ibn Maymun ibn Abdallah Dukkali Hazmiri al-Gharbi (d. 572/1177) (also Bouazza) was a Dukkala Berber
Sufi
Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, ...
saint. He was the teacher of
Abu Madyan
Abu Madyan Shuʿayb ibn al-Husayn al-Ansari al-Andalusi ( ar, ابو مدين شعيب بن الحسين الأنصاري الأندلسي; c. 1126 – 1198 CE), commonly known as Abū Madyan, was an influential Andalusian mystic and a great Su ...
.
Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi
Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi () or in full Abu al-Abbas Ahmad abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Lakhmi al-Sabti (1162–1236) was a religious and legal scholar and member of the Banu al-Azafi who ruled Ceuta in the 13th century. Al-Azafi was an expert i ...
wrote his biography: ''Di'amat al-yaqin fi za'amat al-muttaqin'' (The Pillar of certainty in the leadership of the God-conscious). His grave and mosque was renovated in 1691 by sultan
Moulay Ismael
Moulay Ismail Ibn Sharif ( ar, مولاي إسماعيل بن الشريف), born around 1645 in Sijilmassa and died on 22 March 1727 at Meknes, was a Sultan of Morocco from 1672–1727, as the second ruler of the Alaouite dynasty. He was the sev ...
. A yearly moussem is celebrated in his honour.
[Halima Ferhat, ''Le soufisme et les zaouias au Maghreb'', Casablanca, Toubkal, 2003, p.131-136 and 102]
He mausoleum is located in the eponymous town of
Moulay Bouazza
Moulay Bouazza is a town in Khénifra Province, Béni Mellal-Khénifra, Morocco. According to the 2004 census it has a population of 5,241.
The town was named after a famous religious leader of the 12th-century called Abu Yaaza
Abu Yaaza Yalnour ...
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Moroccan Sufis
12th-century Moroccan people
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12th-century Berber people