Abdallah al-Ghazwani

16th century Muslim saint of Morocco

Abdallah al-Ghazwani عبد الله الغزواني
Born	Ksar al-Kabir, Morocco
Died	1529 Marrakesh, Morocco

The Mausoleum and zawiya of Sidi al-Ghazwani (or Moulay al-Ksour) in Marrakesh

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Abu Mohammed Abdallah al-Ghazwani (Arabic: أبو محمد عبد الله الغزواني) (died in 1529) was a Sufi saint from Morocco in the tradition of al-Jazuli and ash-Shadhili. He was the successor of Abdelaziz al-Tebaa. Some two hundred years after his death he became one of the Sabaatou rijales, the seven saints of Marrakesh. Abdallah al-Ghazwani wrote on the idea of the Tariqa Muhammadiyya.^[1] Al-Ghazwani was also renowned for his skill in sinking wells and constructing channels.^[2]

Notes

^ Vincent Cornell, Realm of the Saint, Power and Authority in Moroccan Sufism (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998), pp. 219, 227.
^ Francisco Rodriguez-Manas, Agriculture, Sūfism and the State in Tenth/Sixteenth-Century Morocco, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 59, No. 3 (1996), pp. 450-471