Muhammad Bin Al-Qāsim al-Qundūsi ( ; born c. 1790 – died 1861) was an Algerian

Sufi Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, ...

calligrapher and scholar who was born in Qanaadasa in southwest Algeria.

Biography

Al-Qundusi was born in Qanaadasa in 1790 in southwest Algeria. In 1828, he migrated to

Fes Fez or Fes (; ar, فاس, fās; zgh, ⴼⵉⵣⴰⵣ, fizaz; french: Fès) is a city in northern inland Morocco and the capital of the Fès-Meknès administrative region. It is the second largest city in Morocco, with a population of 1.11 mi ...

, where he lived and had a ''hanout'' in the herb market, in which he sold herbs. He lived in relative obscurity, though those who knew him described him as gnostic, saintly, esoterically knowledgeable, and spiritually insightful. He wrote many books and transcribed a number of '' dawawin'', or collected works. He conferred upon the Moroccan

Alawite The Alawis, Alawites ( ar, علوية ''Alawīyah''), or pejoratively Nusayris ( ar, نصيرية ''Nuṣayrīyah'') are an ethnoreligious group that lives primarily in Levant and follows Alawism, a sect of Islam that originated from Shia Isl ...

Sultan Sliman a degree in knowledge of the '' Dala'il al-Khayrat'', a seminal Sufi text composed by the 15th-century

Muhammad al-Jazuli Abū 'Abdullah Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Abū Bakr al-Jazūli al-Simlālī () (d. 1465AD = 870AH), often known as Imam al-Jazuli or Sheikh Jazuli, was a Moroccan Sufi Saint. He is best known for compiling the