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 Fez () or Fes (; ) is a city in northern inland Morocco and the capital of the Fez-Meknes administrative region. It is one of the largest cities in Morocco, with a population of 1.256 million, according to the 2024 census. Located to the nort ...

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

and died in that same city in 559/1163. He was a berber

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 ...

teacher, leader of a Ghazalian zawiya in

and was the spiritual master of

Abu Madyan Abu Madyan Shuʿayb ibn al-Husayn al-Ansari al-Andalusi (; c. 1126 – 1198 CE), commonly known as Abū Madyan, was an influential Andalusian mystic and a great Sufi master. Some even refer to him as the national figure of Maghreb mysticism as ...

. The water source "Sidi Harazim" was called after him.

Notes

Mercedes García-Arenal, ''Messianism And Puritanical Reform: Mahdis of the Muslim West, translated by Martin Beagles'', Brill, 2006 , 9789004150515, p. 113

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

Moroccan Sufi writers 1163 deaths People from Fez, Morocco Moroccan Maliki scholars Shadhili order 12th-century Moroccan writers Year of birth unknown 12th-century Berber people Berber writers {{Sufism-stub