Abu Yaqub Yusuf Ibn Yahya ibn al-Zayyat al-Tadili () (born in
Beni Mellal
Beni Mellal ( ar, بني ملال}, ber, ⴰⵢⵜ ⵎⵍⵍⴰⵍ, Ayt Mellal) is a city in north-central Morocco. It is the capital of the Béni Mellal-Khénifra Region and has a population of 192,676 (2014 census). It sits at the foot of Jbe ...
, died 1229/30) was a
sufi mystic, influential jurist and hagiographer from Morocco. He is the biographer of many
sufi saints. His best known publication is the ''at-Tashawwuf ila rijal at-tasawwuf'' (''Looking upon the men of Sufism''), ed. Ahmed Tawfiq (Rabat: Faculte des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines 1984). It was written ca. 1220. At-Tadili also wrote the hagiography of
Abu al-Abbas as-Sabti entitled ''Akhbar Abi'l-Abbas as-Sabti''. Like his Al-tashawwuf (e.g. on
Abu Madyan
Abu Madyan Shuʿayb ibn al-Husayn al-Ansari al-Andalusi ( ar, ابو مدين شعيب بن الحسين الأنصاري الأندلسي; c. 1126 – 1198 CE), commonly known as Abū Madyan, was an influential Andalusian mystic and a great Su ...
) it contains many autobiographical passages of Abu al-Abbas himself.
[Vincent Cornell, ''Realm of the Saint: Power and Authority in Moroccan Sufism'', 1998, p.4]
References
*On the ideas of At-Tadili:''The Essential Titus Burckhardt'', ed. William Stoddart, p. 274-5
*Yusuf Ibn Al Zayyat Al Tadili, ''Regards sur le temps des soufis: Vie des saints du sud marocain des Ve, VIe, VIIe siecles de l'hegire. traduit de l'Arabe par Maurice De Fenoyl'', ed. A. Toufiq (French transl. of Al Tadili's Al Tashawwuf), EDDIF/ UNESCO, Casablanca 1994-1995
*Daphna Ephrat, "In Quest of an Ideal Type of Saint: Some Observations on the First Generation of Moroccan Awliyā' Allāh in "Kitāb al-tashawwuf"", ''Studia Islamica'', No. 94 (2002), pp. 67–84
External links
Article by the Awqaf ministry of Morocco(in Arabic)
Moroccan biographers
Moroccan Sufi writers
1229 deaths
People from Beni Mellal
13th-century Moroccan people
12th-century Moroccan people
People from Kasba Tadla
Year of birth unknown
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