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Sidi Mogdoul was a Moroccan
Wali and religious leader who lived in the 11th-century. He was buried in
Essaouira
Essaouira ( ; ar, الصويرة, aṣ-Ṣawīra; shi, ⵜⴰⵚⵚⵓⵔⵜ, Taṣṣort, formerly ''Amegdul''), known until the 1960s as Mogador, is a port city in the western Moroccan region of Marakesh-Safi, on the Atlantic coast. It ha ...
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Sidi Megdoul came from the noble Berber tribe of
Regraga The Regraga are a sub-tribe of the Masmuda Berber tribal confederacy. They are also one of three tribes that formed the population of Essaouira, Morocco. The Regraga came from the Jbel Hadid mountains and introduced Islam to the region; the other ...
, and was credited with renewing the
Ribat of
Sidi Chiker. From his base in Essaouira, he fought the
Berghwata
The Barghawatas (also Barghwata or Berghouata) were a Berber tribal confederation on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, belonging to the Masmuda confederacy. After allying with the Sufri Kharijite rebellion in Morocco against the Umayyad Caliphate ...
confederacy and later allied with the
Almoravids
The Almoravid dynasty ( ar, المرابطون, translit=Al-Murābiṭūn, lit=those from the ribats) was an imperial Berber Muslim dynasty centered in the territory of present-day Morocco. It established an empire in the 11th century that ...
and participated in the propagation of their
Da'wa
Dawah ( ar, دعوة, lit=invitation, ) is the act of inviting or calling people to embrace Islam. The plural is ''da‘wāt'' (دَعْوات) or ''da‘awāt'' (دَعَوات).
Etymology
The English term ''Dawah'' derives from the Arabic ...
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The saint also gave his name to the nearby lighthouse, 17 meter high, named the Sidi Mogdoul lighthouse.
''NGA Sailing Directions-Enroute: 2008 West Coast of Europe and Northwest Africa'' Griffes, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency p.207
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11th-century Berber people
11th-century Moroccan people
People under the Almoravid dynasty
Moroccan religious leaders
Moroccan military leaders
People from Essaouira