Abu Yahya Ibn Al-Sakkak

Abu Yahya ibn al-Sakkak al-Miknasi () (full name: Abu Yahya or Abu Abd Allah Mohammed ibn Abu Ghalib ibn Ahmad ibn Mohammed ibn Abu-l-Hasan Ali ibn Mohammed ibn as-Sakkak al-Miknasi; d. 22 May 1415), was a Moroccan historian, genealogist, judge, Maliki scholar and Sufi mystic. He was born in Fez into the Ibn al-Sakkak family, a Berber family from the Miknasa tribe. He was a friend of Ibn Khaldun, they both studied under al-Sharif al-Tilimsani. al-Sakkak was especially well known as author of an advice to Muslim kings, ''Nush muluk al-islam bi-al-tarif bi-ma yajibu alay-him min huquq ila bayt al-kiram''. In his advice Ibn Sakkak expressed skepticism about the divine right claimed by some rulers in his time.

Ibn Sakkak is also the author of ''Kitab al-Uslub min-al-kalam ‘ala la hawla wa-la quwwata illa billah'' (known as ''Kitab al-Asalib''), the first book about the Tariqa Shadhiliyya in Morocco, in which he used the name "Shadhili" for Ibn Abbad al-Rundi (d. 792/1377).Éric Geoffroy, ''Une voie soufie dans le monde:la Shâdhiliyya'', p.75''

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1415 deaths
14th-century Berber people
15th-century Berber people
14th-century Moroccan historians
15th-century Moroccan historians
Miknasa
14th-century Moroccan judges
Moroccan Maliki scholars
Moroccan Sufi writers
People from Fez, Morocco
Year of birth unknown
15th-century Moroccan judges

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