Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Ja'far al-Khazraji al-Sabti () (
''Sabta'' 1129 -
Marrakesh
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1204), better known as Sidi Bel Abbas, was a Moroccan Muslim
saint
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. He is the patron saint of
Marrakesh
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in the
Islamic
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tradition and also one of the "
Seven Saints" (''Sabʿatou Rijal'') of the city. His festival was founded by
al-Hasan al-Yusi at the instigation of
Moulay Ismael.
Abu Al-Abbas was born in ''Sabta'' (Ceuta). He studied under Abu Abd Allah al-Fakhkhar, himself a student of
Qadi Ayyad
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 al-Sabtī (Camilo Gómez-Rivas, Islamic Legal Thought: A Compendium of Muslim Jurists, ...
.
When Abu al-Abbas died in 1204, he was buried at the graveyard of Sidi Marouk, near Bab Taghzout. In 1988, sultan
Hassan II
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improved the sanctuary. It is also the place of his
zawiya.
See also
*
Sidi Bel Abbas sanctuary, a Muslim holy place located in the Spanish enclave of
Ceuta
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*
Zawiya of Sidi Bel Abbes in Marrakesh, containing his mausoleum
References
[Vincent J. Cornell, ''Realm of the Saint: Power and Authority in Moroccan Sufism'', p. 91.]
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1129 births
1204 deaths
12th-century Moroccan people
13th-century Moroccan people
Moroccan Sufi writers
People from Ceuta
Moroccan philosophers