Ahmed ibn Abi Mahalli

Ahmed ibn Abi Mahalli
ابن أبي محلي
Personal
Born
Ahmed ben Abdallah[1]

1560
Sijilmasa, Tafilalt
Diedc. October - November 1613
Djillez (near Marrakesh)
Resting placeMausoleum of Abou el-Abbas el-Sebti, Marrakesh
ReligionIslam
SpouseLalla Aisha bint Abu Bakkar al-Shabani (m. 1612)
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceMaliki
Other namesAbu Mahalli
OccupationReligious leader
Military leader
Muslim leader
Disciple ofSidi Mohammed ben Mobarek Ezzaeri
Moroccan literature
Moroccan writers
Forms
Criticism and awards
See also

Ahmed ibn Abi Mahalli (Arabic: ابن أبي محلي; 1560–1613), born in Sijilmasa, was a Moroccan Imam and the Sufi leader of a revolt (1610–13) against the reigning Saadi Sultan Zidan Abu Maali in the south of Morocco in which Ibn Abi Mahalli proclaimed himself Mahdi.[2] He occupied the Saadi's southern capital Marrakesh in 1612 until his death.[3]

  1. ^ Ifrānī, Muḥammad al-Ṣaghīr ibn Muḥammad (1889). Nozhet-Elhâdi: Histoire de la dynastie saadienne au Maroc (1511-1670) (in French). E. Leroux.
  2. ^ Mercedes Garcia-Arenal, "Imam et Mahdi : Ibn Abî Mahallî", in Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2000, p. 157-180 [1] (retrieved 3-2-2011) translation in English, in: Mercedes Garcia-Arenal, Messianism and puritanical reform: Mahdīs of the Muslim west, Brill, 2006
  3. ^ Ifrānī, Muḥammad al-Ṣaghīr ibn Muḥammad (1889). Nozhet-Elhâdi: Histoire de la dynastie saadienne au Maroc (1511-1670) (in French). E. Leroux. p. 338.