The Nasiriyya () is a Sufi order founded by Sidi
Mohammed ibn Nasir al-Drawi (1603–1674) whose centre was
Tamegroute.
History
The Nasiriyya order took its name from founder
Sidi Muhammad bin Nasir al-Drawi (1603–1674), who took over teaching at the Tamegroute zawiya in the 1640s.
Ahmed ibn Nasir
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who was the son of its founder Mohammed ibn Nasir, made six pilgrimages to Mecca, travelling to Ethiopia, Arabia, Egypt, Iraq and Persia. During his travels he established new branches of the Sufi brotherhood. He wrote a series of memoirs of his journeys called the Rihlat Sayyid Al-ṭarīqah. He brought back numerous books from all parts of the Islamic world, which formed the basis of the library at Tamegroute. His translated works can be found saved in the
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in the United States
The 19th sheikh Abu Bekr is well-known, in the Draa valley (zawiya in Mhamid Ghuslan) and in the west through his encounters with the travelers
Gerhard Rohlfs
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and
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. In order to view the books at the library, a permit must be obtained from the Moroccan government, which allows you to handle the books inside the library only. The books collected by Ali Ben include texts on medicine, Qu'ranic learning and astrology, as well as mathematics and the sciences.
Notable Alumni
Ahmad ibn Khalid an-Nasiri was born in
Salé
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, Morocco and is considered to be the greatest Moroccan historian of the 19th century. He was a prominent scholar and a member of the family that founded the Nasiriyya
Sufi
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order in the 17th century. He wrote an important multivolume history of
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: ''
Kitab al-Istiqsa li-Akhbar duwal al-Maghrib al-Aqsa''. The work is a general history of Morocco and the Islamic west from the Islamic conquest to the end of the 19th century. He died in 1897 shortly after having put the finishing touches to his chronicle.
[C.R. Pennell ''Morocco Since 1830: A History'', p. 109,]
See also
*
Darqawa (Sufism)
References
Bibliography
* Ph.D. Thesis
"Between God and men : the Nasiriyya and economic life in Morocco, 1640-1830"by David Gutelius. Johns Hopkins University, 2001.
* Article: The path is easy and the benefits large: The Nasiriyya, social networks and economic change in Morocco, 1640–1830. The Journal of African History, Gutelius, David P.V., 01-Jan-0
* Book chapter
"Sufi networks and the Social Contexts for Scholarship in Morocco and the Northern Sahara, 1660-1830"by David Gutelius. I
ed. Scott Reese. Leiden: Brill Academic Press, 2004.
* Agriculture, Sufism and the State in Tenth/Sixteenth-Century Morocco, by Francisco Rodriguez-Manas, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 59, No. 3 (1996), pp. 450–47
* The Nasiri supplicatio
* Example of a manuscript (from
Timbouctou) in the library of the Nasiryy
* Dalil Makhtutat Dar al Kutub al Nasiriya, 1985 (Catalog of the Nasiri zawiya in Tamagrut), (ed. Keta books)
Sufi orders
Moroccan Sufi orders
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