Moulay Aïssa ben Idriss II (''Aïssa ben idrīs ben idrīs ben `abd allah ben al-ḥasan'') was born in
Fez, Morocco
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in the 9th century. He was the son of
Idriss II and the descendant of both
Idriss I and his brother Suleyman the
sultan of Tlemcen
The Kingdom of Tlemcen or Zayyanid Kingdom of Tlemcen () was a kingdom ruled by the Berbers, Berber Zayyanid dynasty in what is now the northwest of Algeria. Its territory stretched from Tlemcen to the Chelif River, Chelif bend and Algiers, and a ...
. He was the governor of the region of
Salé
Salé (, ) is a city in northwestern Morocco, on the right bank of the Bou Regreg river, opposite the national capital Rabat, for which it serves as a commuter town. Along with some smaller nearby towns, Rabat and Salé form together a single m ...
.
References
Ahmed ibn al-Mubarak al-Lamati, ''Pure Gold from the Words of Sayyidi Abd al-Aziz al-Dabbagh: Al-Dhabab al-Ibriz min Kalam Sayyidi Abd al-Aziz al-Dabbagh (Basic Texts of Islamic Mysticism)'', in English.
Paroles d'or : Kitâb al-Ilbrîz
Language : French
Moroccan nobility
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