Abu Abdallah Mohammed al-Murabit al-Dila'i

Abu Abdallah Mohammed al-Hajj ibn Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Abd-al-Rahman ibn Abu Bakr al-Dilai (born in Fez, died 1678), also known as Al-Murabit, was a renowned linguist and scholar of Arabic grammar and usul-al-fiqh (law).[1] He was the grandson of the founder of the zaouia of Dila, Abu Bakr ibn Mohammed al-Majati as-Sanhaji (1526-1612) and brother of Mohammed al-Hajj (died 1671), who proclaimed himself sultan of Fez in 1641. Al-Dila'i wrote (a.o.) treatises on law (Al Kitab Zawahir al-Fikri), poems in praise of the prophet Mohammed (Zahr al-hada'ih and Al-Zahr al-nadi fi-l-khuluk al-muhammadi).[2][3] and an urdjuza (poem in a specific metre) about the shorfa (descendants of the prophet), Durrat al-tidjan.[4][5] Al-Dila'i performed the hajj, together with his father, in 1659 and wrote his Rihla (account of the journey) in the form of a poem of 136 lines, entitled Al-Rihla al-Mujaddasa. He was the teacher of Abu Ali al-Hassan al-Yusi (1631–1691).

References

  1. Roger M. A. Allen et. al., Essays in Literary Biography, 1350-1850, 2009, p.415
  2. M. Lakhdar, La Vie literaire au Maroc sous la dynastie Alawide, Rabat, 1971, p.166-8
  3. Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Encyclopedie de l'Islam, Brill Archive, 1981, p. 224
  4. Hasan Jalab, Abu 'Abdi Allah Muhammad al Murabit al Dila'i (about his life and literary production), Keta Books, 1997
  5. Vajda, Georges, "Note sur l'oeuvre de Muhammad al-Murabit Ad-Dilai", Hesperis 1956, T. XLIII, 1er-2eme trimestres, pp. 215-216


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