Moulay Abu Abdallah Mohammed Amghar () (ca 1060) was a Moroccan Sufi saint during the reign of the

Almoravid dynasty The Almoravid dynasty () was a Berber Muslim dynasty centered in the territory of present-day Morocco. It established an empire that stretched over the western Maghreb and Al-Andalus, starting in the 1050s and lasting until its fall to the Almo ...

and the founder of the Taifa Sanhajiya, the earliest example of a

Sufi Sufism ( or ) is a mysticism, mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic Tazkiyah, purification, spirituality, ritualism, and Asceticism#Islam, asceticism. Practitioners of Sufism are r ...

order in the Maghrib. He is also the patron saint of Tit, a small village 12 kilometers from

El Jadida El Jadida (, ) is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, located south of the city of Casablanca, in the province of El Jadida and the region of Casablanca-Settat. It has a population of 170,956 as of 2023. The fortified city, b ...

.*Museum with no frontiers: The ribat of Tit (El-Jadida) http://www.discoverislamicart.org/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;ma;Mon01;33;en

External links

*Darr-sir.com: ''Moroccan Maraboutism'', see "5. Ribat Tit al-Fitr
retrieved on 04-22-2008
*The moussem of El Jadida (mainly in French
retrieved on 04-22-2008

References

*Ahmet T. Karamustafa, ''Sufism: The Formative Period'', p148 *Vincent J. Cornell, ''Realm of the Saint: Power and Authority in Moroccan Sufism'' 1998, p. 45 *The famous scholar Ibn Qunfudh also wrote on Abdallah Amghar. The book of his journeys in Morocco is entitled Uns al-faqir wa 'izz al-haqir, "the Convivial Company of the Wandering Poor and the Honorable Strength of the Contemptible." It can be found in the Royal Archives in Rabat: Bibliothèque Royal de Rabat N° 365, Madrid N° 186 (1406), Le Caire N°46. Bibliothèque Royal Rabat 8288-5354-3978 Moroccan Sufis Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown {{Morocco-bio-stub Moroccan Berbers 11th-century Berber people Berber Muslims 11th-century Moroccan people