Muhammad al-Tayyib ibn Kiran (; 1172/1758-1227/1812) was a Moroccan, religious scholar from

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 ...

. He also played an active political role. Ibn Kiran is the author of ''Risala bn Saud'', a response, written at the request of the sultan

mulay Slimane ''Mawlay'' Sulayman bin Mohammed, born on 28 June 1766 in Tafilalt and died on 28 November 1822 in Marrakesh, was a Sultan of Morocco from 1792 to 1822, as a ruler of the 'Alawi dynasty. He was proclaimed sultan after the death of his half-brother ...

, to the manifesto of the Wahhabis. He has written several commentaries, including one on

al-Ghazali Al-Ghazali ( – 19 December 1111), archaically Latinized as Algazelus, was a Shafi'i Sunni Muslim scholar and polymath. He is known as one of the most prominent and influential jurisconsults, legal theoreticians, muftis, philosophers, the ...

's ''Ihya'' and another on the ''Alfiyya'' of

Ibn Malik Abu 'Abd Allāh Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abd Allāh ibn Mālik al-Tā'i al-Jayyāni () ( 600 AH – 672 AH / 1203-4 or 1204-5 – 21 February 1274) was an Arab grammarian born in Jaén. After leaving al-Andalus for the Near East, and taug ...

. He also wrote ''Iqd nafais alla-ali fi tahrik al-himam al-awali'', a popular religious work. Ibn Kiran was a teacher at

Al-Qarawiyyin The University of al-Qarawiyyin (), also written Al-Karaouine or Al Quaraouiyine, is a university located in Fez, Morocco. It was founded as a mosque by Fatima al-Fihri in 857–859 and subsequently became one of the leading spiritual and educ ...

University and the teacher of Ahmad Ibn Idris Al-Fasi and

Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi (; in full Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Sanūsī al-Mujāhirī al-Ḥasanī al-Idrīsī) (1787–1859) was an Algerian Muslim theologian and leader who founded the Senussi mystical order in 1837. His militant mystical mov ...

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Asharis Sunni Sufis 1758 births 1812 deaths Scholars from Fez, Morocco Moroccan scholars Moroccan Sufis Moroccan Maliki scholars 18th-century Moroccan writers 19th-century Moroccan people {{Morocco-writer-stub

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