Abd al-Qadir al-Fasi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Moroccan scholar
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Place of Birth: Ksar el-Kebir, Tangier-Tetouan, Morocco
About Abd al-Qadir al-Fasi
- Abd al-Qadir ibn Ali ibn Yusuf al-Fasi (Arabic: ??? ?????? ?? ??? ?? ???? ??????; c.
- 1599–1680) or, in full, Abu Mohammed, Abu Sa'ud Abd al-Qadir al-Fasi ibn Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Abu al-Mahasin Yusuf al-Qasri al-Fasi was the founder of the Shadhili zawiyya of Ksar-el-Kebir.
- His biography, Tuhfat al-Kebir, was written by his son Abd al-Rahman al-Fasi.
- Abd al-Qadir al-Fasi 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 also wrote a treatise on hadith.
- Abd al-Qadir was a son of Abu l-Mahasin Yusuf al-Fasi (d.
- 1604) the founder of the zawiya Fassiyun, which later was given the name of Abd al-Qadir al-Fasi.
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