Abu Zaid Abd al-Rahman Abu Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Fasi (; c. 1631–1685) was a Moroccan writer in the field of law, history, astronomy and music. He wrote some 170 books and has been called the

Suyuti Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti ( ar, جلال الدين السيوطي, Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī) ( 1445–1505 CE),; ( Brill 2nd) or Al-Suyuti, was an Arab Egyptian polymath, Islamic scholar, historian, Sufi, and jurist. From a family of Persian ...

of his time. He was born in the prominent family of ''al-Fasi'' and he was a follower of his father, the Sufi saint Abd al-Qadir Ibn Ali Ibn Yusuf al-Fasi (1599–1680).

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*''Hawashi ala Kalam'', Fez 1899 *''Ibtihaj al-qulub bi khabar al-Shaykh Abi al-Mahasin wa wa shaykhihi al-Majdhub'' (a biography of

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'' ...

and other Moroccan sheikhs) *''Sharh al' Amal al-Fasi'' (treatise on law), lithography, Fes, ed. Al-Matba'a al Maghribiya, 1899 *''Bu Şinaq'', translated by Nicolae Dobrişan, ANA, 2nd vol., p. 128–134. *''al-Djumu fi ilm al-musiqi wa'l tubul'' (The gatherings in the theory of music and the musical modes)

References

* Al-Kattani, ''Salwat al-Anfas'' I, 32 * "Al-Lamiya de az-Zaqqaq, al-'Amal al-Fasi de 'Abd ar-Rahman al-Fasi, y al-'Amal al-Mutlaq de as-Siyilmasi" by Henry Toledano, ''International Journal of Middle East Studies'', vol. 5, 1974. *Brockelmann, ''GAL'' SII, p. 694 *Levi Provençal, ''Chorfa'' 266 *John Ralph Willis, ''In the path of Allah: the passion of al-Hajj Umar'', p. 225

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