Abu Imran Musa ibn Isa ibn abi hajj (or hajjaj) al-Fasi () (also simply known as Abu Imran al-Fasi; born between 975 and 978, died 8 June 1039) was a Moroccan Maliki ''

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to a Berber or

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'' is impossible to reconstruct. Abu Imran al-Fasi was probably born between 975 and 978 at Fes. He went to Ifriqiya, where he settled in

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and studied under al-Kabisi (died 1012). With al-Kabisi, he introduced the young Ibn Sharaf to poetry. Some time later, he stayed in Cordova with Ibn Abd al-Barr and followed the lectures of various scholars there, which his biographers list. He is regarded a saint by later Sufi mystics. He played an important role in the history of the

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. It was his teaching in

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) that first stirred Yahya ibn Ibrahim, who was returning from the Pilgrimage and attended Abu Imran's courses. This inspired the foundation of the Almoravids."Rethinking the Almoravids", in: Julia Ann Clancy-Smith ''North Africa, Islam and the Mediterranean World'', Routledge, 2001, p. 60-61 He wrote a commentary on the Mudawana of Sahnun.

Qadi Ayyad ʿIyāḍ ibn Mūsā (1083–1149) ( ar, القاضي عياض بن موسى, formally Abū al-Faḍl ʿIyāḍ ibn Mūsā ibn ʿIyāḍ ibn ʿAmr ibn Mūsā ibn ʿIyāḍ ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mūsā ibn ʿIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣubī ...

(d.544/1129), author of the ''Kitab Shifa bitarif huquq al-Mustapha'' (''The Antidote in knowing the rights of the Chosen Prophet''), hagiographied Abu Imran al-Fasi in his ''Tadrib a-Madarik'' (''Exercising Perception''), an encyclopaedia of Maliki scholars.

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970s births 1039 deaths Asharis Berber writers Moroccan Maliki scholars People from Fez, Morocco 10th-century Berber people 11th-century Berber people Berber scholars 11th-century Moroccan writers 10th-century Arabs 11th-century Arabs 11th-century Muslim theologians {{Morocco-writer-stub

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