Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Haqq al-Yalisuti az-Zarwili () known as al-Sughayyir (died 1319 in

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) was a

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of Taza and later qadi of

.Mohamed A. Benchekroun, ''La vie intellectuelle marocaine sous les Mérinides et les Wattasides'', Rabat 1974, p. 172-7 He was of Berber origin. Al-Zarwili wrote a commentary of 12 volumes (''Sharh al-Mudawwana'') on the ''Mudawwana'' by Sahnun ibn Said and was considered a "qutb" (axis of his age) by his contemporaries.David S. Powers, ''Law, Society, and Culture in the Maghreb, 1300-1500'', Cambridge University Press, 2002, p. 59

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