Abderrahman El Majdoub
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Sidi Abderrahman el Majdoub (died 1568), also transcribed as Mejdub, full name Abou Mohamed Ben Ayad Ben Yacoub ben Salama Ben Khachachan Es Senhaji El Faradji Ed Doukkali el Majdoub (Arabic: عبد الرحمان المجذوب), was a Moroccan poet. Many lines of his poems are known throughout the Maghreb
, and his work is the source of many proverbs (e.g. "doubt is the beginning of wisdom").
El Majdoub was born in Tit Mlil, on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean between Al Jadida and Azemmour. The date of his birth of is unknown. He lived during the rise of the Saadi dynasty
under the reign of Mohammed ash-Sheikh
and Abdallah al-Ghalib
.
El Majdoub died in 1568 in Merdacha, Jbel Aouf. His tomb is in Meknes
, near gate Aissa, where later the mausoleum of Moulay Ismail was built. The tomb attracts many visitors even today.
Maghreb
The Maghreb is the region of Northwest Africa, west of Egypt. It includes five countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania and the disputed territory of Western Sahara...
, and his work is the source of many proverbs (e.g. "doubt is the beginning of wisdom").
El Majdoub was born in Tit Mlil, on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean between Al Jadida and Azemmour. The date of his birth of is unknown. He lived during the rise of the Saadi dynasty
Saadi Dynasty
The Saadi dynasty of Morocco , began with the reign of Sultan Mohammed ash-Sheikh in 1554, when he vanquished the last Wattasids at the Battle of Tadla....
under the reign of Mohammed ash-Sheikh
Mohammed ash-Sheikh
Mawlay Mohammed ash-Sheikh ash Sharif al-Hassani al-Drawi at-Tagmadert was the first sultan of the Saadi dynasty ruling over Morocco . "Al-Drawi at-Tagmadert" means: the man from the Draa river valley, from Tagmadert. He was particularly successful in expelling the Portuguese from most of their...
and Abdallah al-Ghalib
Abdallah al-Ghalib
Abdallah al-Ghalib Billah was the second Saadian sultan of Morocco.He came to power to the throne as the legal heir of Mohammed ash-Sheikh. From his first wife this first Saadian sultan, Mohammed ash-Sheikh had had three sons, but the two oldest had died...
.
El Majdoub died in 1568 in Merdacha, Jbel Aouf. His tomb is in Meknes
Meknes
Meknes is a city in northern Morocco, located from the capital Rabat and from Fes. It is served by the A2 expressway between those two cities and by the corresponding railway. Meknes was the capital of Morocco under the reign of Moulay Ismail , before it was relocated to Marrakech. The...
, near gate Aissa, where later the mausoleum of Moulay Ismail was built. The tomb attracts many visitors even today.
External links
- Play by Tayeb SeddikiTayeb SeddikiTayeb Seddiki is a Moroccan playwright, writing in both Arabic and French. He was born in Essaouira in 1938. He grew up in Casablanca in a neighborhood between el Habous and l'Hermitage. At the age of 17 he decided to go to France to study architecture. When he followed a course on stage design...
on Majdub (French) http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu/souffles/s5/11.html - Mausoleum of Mulay Isma‘il (near the burial site of Sidi Abderrahman El Majdoub http://www.discoverislamicart.org/pc_item.php?id=monument;ISL;ma;Mon01;35;en#