Muhammad al-Tayyib ibn Kiran (; 1172/1758-1227/1812) was a Moroccan, religious scholar 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 ...

. He also played an active political role. Ibn Kiran is the author of ''Risala bn Saud'', a response, written at the request of the sultan

mulay Slimane ''Mawlay'' Sulayman bin Mohammed ( ar, سليمان بن محمد), born on 28 June 1766 in Tafilalt and died on 28 November 1822 in Marrakesh, was a Sultan of Morocco from 1792 to 1822, as a ruler of the 'Alawi dynasty. He was proclaimed sultan a ...

, to the manifesto of the Wahhabis. He has written several commentaries, including one on

al-Ghazali Al-Ghazali ( – 19 December 1111; ), full name (), and known in Persian-speaking countries as Imam Muhammad-i Ghazali (Persian: امام محمد غزالی) or in Medieval Europe by the Latinized as Algazelus or Algazel, was a Persian polymat ...

's ''Ihya'' and another on the ''Alfiyya'' of

Ibn Malik Abu 'Abd Allah Jamal al-Din Muḥammad ibn Abd Allāh ibn Malik al-Ta'i al-Jayyani ( ar, ابو عبدالله جمال الدين محمد بن عبدالله بن محمد بن عبدالله بن مالك الطائي الجياني النحو ...

. He also wrote ''Iqd nafais alla-ali fi tahrik al-himam al-awali'', a popular religious work. Ibn Kiran was a teacher at

Al-Qarawiyyin The University of al-Qarawiyyin ( ar, جامعة القرويين; ber, ⵜⴰⵙⴷⴰⵡⵉⵜ ⵏ ⵍⵇⴰⵕⴰⵡⵉⵢⵉⵏ; french: Université Al Quaraouiyine), also written Al-Karaouine or Al Quaraouiyine, is a university located in ...

University and the teacher of

Ahmad Ibn Idris Al-Fasi Abu al-Abbās Ahmad Ibn Idris al-Araishi al-Alami al-Idrisi al-Hasani () (1760–1837) was a Moroccan Sunni Islamic scholar, jurist and Sufi, active in Morocco, the Hejaz, Egypt, and Yemen. His main concern was the revivification of the sunnah or ...

and

Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi (; in full Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Sanūsī al-Mujāhirī al-Ḥasanī al-Idrīsī) (1787–1859) was an Algerian Muslim theologian and leader who founded the Senussi mystical order in 1837. His militant mystical move ...

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Asharis Sunni Sufis Moroccan writers 1758 births 1812 deaths People from Fez, Morocco Moroccan scholars Moroccan Sufis Moroccan Maliki scholars 18th-century Moroccan people 19th-century Moroccan people {{Morocco-writer-stub

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