Mohammed ibn al-Talib al-Tawudi ibn Suda (; 1700–1795) was one of the most influential scholars of the 18th century in

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, both politically and intellectually. He is described by the Egyptian historian, Al-Jabarti, as the "crescent of the Maghrib". He went on the

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in 1767-1768 and studied in

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with Mohammed ibn Abdel Karim al-Samman (1718–1775), founder of the Sammaniyya branch of the

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and in Cairo with the Indian scholar Mohammed Murtada al-Zabidi (d. 1791). In Cairo he also taught the Muwatta of Malik ibn Anas at the Al-Azhar. Ibn Suda was appointed by the sultan in 1788 to reform the curriculum at the Qarawiyin University of

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, where he was installed as ''mufti'' and ''shaykh al-jamaa.'' Ibn Suda is also well known as the author of a commentary on

Sahih al-Bukhari Sahih al-Bukhari ( ar, صحيح البخاري, translit=Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī), group=note is a ''hadith'' collection and a book of '' sunnah'' compiled by the Persian scholar Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl al-Bukhārī (810–870) around 846. Al ...

See: Abd al-Hayy ibn Abd al-Kabir al-Kattani, ''Fihris al-faharis wa'l-athbat wa-mu'jam al-ma'ajim wa'l-mashyakhat wa'l-musalsalat'', ed. Ihsan Abbas, 3 vols. , Beirut 1982-6, pp. 256-63, and as the teacher of Ahmed ibn Idris.

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Moroccan writers Moroccan Maliki scholars 1700 births 1795 deaths 18th-century Moroccan people Scholars from Fez, Morocco {{Morocco-writer-stub

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