Makhlūf ibn `Alī ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Balbālī ( ar, مخلوف بن علي بن صالح البلبالي), d. after 1533, was an Islamic scholar of North and West Africa. He came from the oasis of
Tabelbala. After spending his youth in trade, he studied in
Walata
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and in
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...
, then travelled to West Africa to teach in
Kano,
Katsina, and
Timbuktu
Timbuktu ( ; french: Tombouctou;
Koyra Chiini: ); tmh, label=Tuareg, script=Tfng, ⵜⵏⴱⴾⵜ, Tin Buqt a city in Mali, situated north of the Niger River. The town is the capital of the Tombouctou Region, one of the eight administrativ ...
, finally returning to Morocco to teach in
Marrakech
Marrakesh or Marrakech ( or ; ar, مراكش, murrākuš, ; ber, ⵎⵕⵕⴰⴽⵛ, translit=mṛṛakc}) is the fourth largest city in the Kingdom of Morocco. It is one of the four Imperial cities of Morocco and is the capital of the Marrakes ...
. While in Marrakech he fell ill and returned to Tabelbala to die after the year 940 AH (1533/4.) Among his surviving
fatwa
A fatwā ( ; ar, فتوى; plural ''fatāwā'' ) is a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (''sharia'') given by a qualified '' Faqih'' (Islamic jurist) in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge or government. A jurist i ...
s is a judgement that slaves originating in established Muslim lands had the right to freedom.
[''Arabic literature of Africa: the writings of Central Sudanic Africa, Volume 2'', ed. John Hunwick and R. S. O'Fahey, Leiden: Brill (1995.)]
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16th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
Algerian Maliki scholars
Year of death unknown
People from Béchar Province
Year of birth unknown
16th-century Algerian people
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