Abd al-Rahman al-Fasi
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Abu Zaid Abd al-Rahman Abu Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Fasi (Arabic: أبو زيد عبد الرحمن أبو محمد بن عبد القادر الفاسي; c. 1631–1685) was a Moroccan writer in the field of law, history, astronomy and music. He wrote some 170 books and has been called the Suyuti of his time. He was a follower of his father, the sufi saint Abd al-Qadir Ibn Ali Ibn Yusuf al-Fasi
(1599–1680).
Abd al-Qadir al-Fasi
Abd al-Qadir ibn Ali ibn Yusuf al-Fasi was the founder of the Shadhili zawiyya of Ksar-el-Kebir. He is the author of a fahrasa. This genre, in which a scholar enumerates his shaykhs and the works he read with them, can be read as a scholarly curriculum vitae. He was a son of Abu l-Mahasin Yusuf...
(1599–1680).
Books by al-Fasi
- Hawashi ala Kalam, Fez 1899
- Ibtihaj al-qulub bi khabar al-Shaykh Abi al-Mahasin wa wa shaykhihi al-Majdhub (a biography of Abu l-Mahasin Yusuf al-Fasi and other Moroccan sheikhs)
- Sharh al' Amal al-Fasi (treatise on law), lithography, Fes, ed. Al-Matba'a al Maghribiya, 1899
- Bu Şinaq, translated by Nicolae Dobrişan, ANA, 2nd vol., p. 128–134.
- al-Djumu fi ilm al-musiqi wa'l tubul (The gatherings in the theory of music and the musical modes)
See also
- Mohammed al-Qasim al-Sijilmasi