Abu Yahya ibn al-Sakkak al-Miknasi () (full name: Abu Yahya or Abu Abd Allah Mohammed ibn Abu Ghalib ibn Ahmad ibn Mohammed ibn Abu-l-Hasan Ali ibn Mohammed ibn as-Sakkak al-Miknasi; d. 22 May 1415), was a Moroccan historian,

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, judge, Maliki scholar and

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mystic. He was born in Fez into the Ibn al-Sakkak family, a

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family from the

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tribe. He was a friend of

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, they both studied under al-Sharif al-Tilimsani. al-Sakkak was especially well known as author of an advice to Muslim kings, ''Nush muluk al-islam bi-al-tarif bi-ma yajibu alay-him min huquq ila bayt al-kiram''. In his advice Ibn Sakkak expressed skepticism about the divine right claimed by some rulers in his time. Ibn Sakkak is also the author of ''Kitab al-Uslub min-al-kalam ‘ala la hawla wa-la quwwata illa billah'' (known as ''Kitab al-Asalib''), the first book about the Tariqa Shadhiliyya in Morocco, in which he used the name "Shadhili" for Ibn Abbad al-Rundi (d. 792/1377).Éric Geoffroy, ''Une voie soufie dans le monde:la Shâdhiliyya'', p.75

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