Mohammed al-Mahdi al-Fasi () also known as Abu Isa Abu Abdallah Mohammed al-Mahdi ibn Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Yusuf al-Fihri al-Fasi was a well-known mystic, biographer and historian from

Fes Fez or Fes (; ar, فاس, fās; zgh, ⴼⵉⵣⴰⵣ, fizaz; french: Fès) is a city in northern inland Morocco and the capital of the Fès-Meknès administrative region. It is the second largest city in Morocco, with a population of 1.11 mi ...

. A member of the prominent ''al-Fasi'' family. He was born in Ksar al-Kebir on May 17, 1624Mohammed Lakhdar, ''La Vie Littéraire au Maroc sous la dynastie alawite (1075/1311/1664-1894)''. Rabat: Ed. Techniques Nord-Africaines, 1971, p. 316 and died 20 February 1698. He was buried in the mausoleum of his great grandfather

Abu l-Mahasin Yusuf al-Fasi Abu al-Mahasin Yusuf ibn Mohammed Yusuf al-Fasi () (1530/1531 in Ksar-el-Kebir, Morocco – 14 August 1604 in Fes, Morocco) was a major figure of Moroccan Sufism and the founder of the Zawiya al-Fassiya in Fes. He belonged to the ''al-Fasi'' Fa ...

. He was the author of the following works on mysticism: *Three commentaries on the ''

Dala'il al-Khayrat ''Dalāil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāt alá al-Nabī al-mukhtār'' ( ar, دلائل الخيرات وشوارق الأنوار في ذكر الصلاة على النبي المختار, translation=Waymarks of Benefit ...

'' *''Mumti al-asma fi dhikr al-Jazuli wa at-Tabba'a wa ma lahuma min al-atba'' (on

Muhammad al-Jazuli Abū 'Abdullah Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Abū Bakr al-Jazūli al-Simlālī () (d. 1465AD = 870AH), often known as Imam al-Jazuli or Sheikh Jazuli, was a Moroccan Sufi Saint. He is best known for compiling the ''Dala'il al-Khayrat'', an extr ...

and

Abdelaziz al-Tebaa Abdelaziz al-Tebbaa () or Sidi Abdelaziz ibn Abdelhaq Tebbaa al-Hassani (died 1508) was the founder of the first sufi zawiyya of the Jazuli order in Marrakesh. The principles of Sidi al-Tebbaa ultimately go back to Abu Madyan, as outlined in Abu M ...

) *''Al-Ilma bi-bad man lam yudkar fi-Mumti al-asma'' Mohammed al-Mahdi was particularly interested in the history of mysticism in Morocco since Mohammed al-Jazuli and his pupil al-Tabba up to the end of the 17th century. Parallel to that history he retraces the development of the Sadilite school and its affiliate founded by Ahmed Zarruq. Al-Mahdi wrote the following biographical works, on his great grandfather

: *''Al-Gawahir as-Safiyya min al-Mahasin al-Yusufiyya'' *''Rawdat al-mahasin az-zahiyya bi-maatir as-Sayh Abi-l-Mahsin al-Bahiyya'' On the traditions of the people of

he wrote: *''Al-Arf al-asi fi-l-urf al-Fasi''

References

* Évariste Lévi-Provençal, ''Les Historiens du Chorfa, Essai sur la littérature historique et biographique au Maroc, du XVIe au XXe siècle'', (1922) Moroccan Sufi writers Moroccan biographers 17th-century Moroccan historians People from Ksar el-Kebir People from Fez, Morocco 17th-century Arabs {{Morocco-writer-stub