''For the teacher of Ash-Shadhili see

Abu Abdallah ibn Harzihim ''For the teacher of Abu Madyan see Ali ibn Harzihim'' Abu Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Harazim (; d. 1235/6) from Fez was a Moroccan Sufi leader, pupil of Abu Madyan. Ibn Harazim was the sheikh of Abu-l-Hassan ash-Shadhili Abu al-Hasan al-Shad ...

'' Sidi Ali ibn Harzihim () or Abul Hasan Ali ibn Ismail ibn Mohammed ibn Abdallah ibn Harzihim/Hirzihim (also: Sidi Hrazem or Sidi Harazim) was born in Fes,

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria t ...

and died in that same city in 559/1163. He was a berber Sufi teacher, leader of a Ghazalian zawiya in Fes and was the spiritual master of

Abu Madyan Abu Madyan Shuʿayb ibn al-Husayn al-Ansari al-Andalusi ( ar, ابو مدين شعيب بن الحسين الأنصاري الأندلسي; c. 1126 – 1198 CE), commonly known as Abū Madyan, was an influential Andalusian mystic and a great Su ...

. Ibn Hirzihim was largely responsible for the propagation of the works of

Al-Ghazali Al-Ghazali ( – 19 December 1111; ), full name (), and known in Persian-speaking countries as Imam Muhammad-i Ghazali (Persian: امام محمد غزالی) or in Medieval Europe by the Latinized as Algazelus or Algazel, was a Persian poly ...

in northwest Africa. He taught at the Qarawiyin University of Fes and openly criticized the policies of the

Almoravid dynasty The Almoravid dynasty ( ar, المرابطون, translit=Al-Murābiṭūn, lit=those from the ribats) was an imperial Berber Muslim dynasty centered in the territory of present-day Morocco. It established an empire in the 11th century tha ...

. Ibn Harzihim was also responsible for the burial of Sidi Abu Hakam ibn Barrajan, which, according to some sources, was forbidden by the

Almoravid The Almoravid dynasty ( ar, المرابطون, translit=Al-Murābiṭūn, lit=those from the ribats) was an imperial Berber Muslim dynasty centered in the territory of present-day Morocco. It established an empire in the 11th century that ...

sultan. Sidi Ibn Harzihim received his

khirqa The khirqa is the initiatory cloak of the Sufi chain of spirituality, with which esoteric knowledge and barakah is passed from the Murshid or the Shaikh to the aspirant murid. The khirqa initiates an aspirant into the silsilah, the chain or lineage ...

(the Sufi robe) from Ibn al-Arabi before Ibn al-Arabi's death in 1148.Mercedes García-Arenal, ''Messianism And Puritanical Reform: Mahdis of the Muslim West, translated by Martin Beagles'', Brill, 2006 , 9789004150515, p. 113 He received his teachings from his uncle Abu Muhammad ibn Saalih ibn Harzihim (d. 505/1112), who took it from

. He was buried at the Bab Ftouh (south-eastern gate) cemetery of Fes, in a mausoleum which also contains the tomb of the

Alaouite dynasty The Alawi dynasty ( ar, سلالة العلويين الفيلاليين, translit=sulālat al-ʿalawiyyīn al-fīlāliyyīn) – also rendered in English as Alaouite, Alawid, or Alawite – is the current Moroccan royal family and reigning ...

's founder, Moulay Rashid. The water source "Sidi Harazim" was called after him.

Notes

Bibliography

* Abu Yaqub Yusuf ibn al-Zayyat al-Tadili (d. 1230/1), ''Kitab al-tashawuf ila rijal al-tasawwuf'' (Rabat, 1997) *''The way of Abu Madyan'', Appendix I: text and translation of "al-Qasida al-Nuniyya", a work attributed to ‘Ali ibn Hirzihim, 1996,

External links

*Dar sirr.co

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