Abu Yaqub Yusuf Ibn Yahya ibn al-Zayyat al-Tadili () (born in

Beni Mellal Beni Mellal () is a city in north-central Morocco. It is the capital of the Béni Mellal-Khénifra Region and has a population of 192,676 (2014 census). It sits at the foot of Jbel Tassemit (2247 m), next to the plains of Beni Amir. The modern ...

, died 1229/30) was a

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mystic, influential jurist and hagiographer from Morocco. He is the biographer of many

saints. His best known publication is the ''at-Tashawwuf ila rijal at-tasawwuf'' (''Looking upon the men of Sufism''), ed. Ahmed Tawfiq (Rabat: Faculte des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines 1984). It was written ca. 1220. At-Tadili also wrote the hagiography of

Abu al-Abbas as-Sabti Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Ja'far al-Khazraji al-Sabti () ( ''Sabta'' 1129 - Marrakesh 1204), better known as Sidi Bel Abbas, was a Moroccan Muslim saint. He is the patron saint of Marrakesh in the Islamic tradition and also one of the " Seven Saints" ...

entitled ''Akhbar Abi'l-Abbas as-Sabti''. Like his Al-tashawwuf (e.g. on

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 ...

) it contains many autobiographical passages of Abu al-Abbas himself.Vincent Cornell, ''Realm of the Saint: Power and Authority in Moroccan Sufism'', 1998, p.4

References

*On the ideas of At-Tadili:''The Essential Titus Burckhardt'', ed. William Stoddart, p. 274-5 *Yusuf Ibn Al Zayyat Al Tadili, ''Regards sur le temps des soufis: Vie des saints du sud marocain des Ve, VIe, VIIe siecles de l'hegire. traduit de l'Arabe par Maurice De Fenoyl'', ed. A. Toufiq (French transl. of Al Tadili's Al Tashawwuf), EDDIF/ UNESCO, Casablanca 1994-1995 *Daphna Ephrat, "In Quest of an Ideal Type of Saint: Some Observations on the First Generation of Moroccan Awliyā' Allāh in "Kitāb al-tashawwuf"", ''Studia Islamica'', No. 94 (2002), pp. 67–84

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Article by the Awqaf ministry of Morocco
(in Arabic) Moroccan biographers Moroccan Sufi writers 1229 deaths People from Beni Mellal 13th-century Moroccan writers 12th-century Moroccan people People from Kasba Tadla Year of birth unknown {{Morocco-writer-stub