Mohammed ibn al-Tayyib

Mohammed bin al-Tayyib
محمد بن الطيب
Personal
Born1698
Fes, Morocco
Died1756
Medina, Ottoman Empire
(Modern-day Saudi Arabia)
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
CreedMaliki
Main interest(s)Linguistics, History, Islamic jurisprudence, Hadith
Notable work(s)Rihla ila al-Hijaz, Commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari
OccupationScholar, Historian, Linguist
Senior posting
Influenced by
Moroccan literature
Moroccan writers
Forms
Criticism and awards
See also

Mohammed bin al-Tayyib (Arabic: محمد بن الطيب) or Abu Abdallah Mohammed bin Mohammed bin Musa bin Mohammed al-Sharqi al-Sumayli ibn Tayyib al-Fasi al-Alami (1698–1756) was a famous Moroccan linguist, historian and scholar of fikh (law) and hadith.[1] He is the author of sixteen books on grammar and morphology, nine books on lexicography, many books on quranic interpretation and exegesis, hadith, sufism, fiqh and biographies of famous poets and scholars of Al-Andalus.[2] He also wrote The Companion of the Performer (al-Anis al-Mutrib). One of his many teachers was the music theorist Bu 'Isami (d. ca. 1103 AH/1690 AD).[3] Ibn al-Tayyib is the author of a well known rihla, Rihla ila al-Hijaz.[4]

  1. ^ Nasser S. al-Samaany, Travel Literature of Moroccan Pilgrims during the 11-12th/17-18th Centuries: Thematic and Artistic Study, Phd Thesis, Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Leeds, 2003, p. 65-66
  2. ^ Salah al-Dihan, Critical Edition of Muhammad Al-Tayyib's Manuscript "Travel to Hijjaz": Annotated and Authenticated, Vol. 1 (Phd. thesis), ESRI, School of Languages, University of Salford, 2003, p. 83-104
  3. ^ H. G. Farmer, An Old Moorish Lute Tutor, Glasgow, 1933, p. 11
  4. ^ Mustapha Lahlali, Salah Al-Dihan, Wafa Abu Hatab, The Travels of Ibn al-Tayyib: The Forgotten Journey of an Eighteenth Century Traveller to the Hijaz, Wafa Abu Hatab, 2010