Ahmad Zarruq
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Ahmad Zarruq (
Fes.[1][2] He is considered one of the most prominent and accomplished legal, theoretical, and spiritual scholars in Islamic history, and is thought by some to have been the renewer of his time (mujaddid). He was also the first to be given the honorific title "Regulator of the Scholars and Saints" (muhtasib al-‘ulama’ wa al-awliya’).[3]
His shrine is located in Misrata, Libya, however unknown militants exhumed the grave and burnt half the mosque.
Life
Zarruq was born on 7 June 1442 (22nd Muharram, 846 of the Islamic 'Hijra' calendar) - according to Sheikh Abd Allah Gannun - in a village in the region of Tiliwan, a mountain area of
Fes and Taza
, and was orphaned of both his mother and father within the first seven days of his birth. His grandmother, an accomplished jurist, raised him and was his first teacher.
Zarruq is one of the most prominent scholars in the late Maliki school but is perhaps better known as a Sufi order (Tariqa). He was a contemporary of Muhammad al-Jazuli
.
He took the name 'Zarruq' (meaning 'blue') and he studied the traditional
ibn 'Ata Allah. He travelled East to Mecca in Tihamah and to Egypt before taking up residence in Misrata, Libya where he died in 899 (1493). He was buried in Misrata
, Libya.
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Quotes
- This world is like the river of Goliath from which no one who drinks is saved except the one who scoops up a handful, not the one who slakes his thirst.[6]
See also
- Wazifa Zarruqiyya
- List of Ash'aris and Maturidis
Notes
- ISBN 9781107042964.
- ISBN 0-253-34711-4, p. 7
- ^ "Zaytuna College Perennial Faculty". Archived from the original on 22 March 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
- ISBN 0-253-34711-4, p. 8
- ^ "Biographie du Cheikh Zarrûq". 23 April 2012.
- ^ "Sharh Al Hikam of Ibn Atta by Ibn Ajiba". p. 21.
Bibliography
- Scott Alan Kugle, Rebel Between Spirit And Law: Ahmad Zarruq, Sainthood, And Authority in Islam, Indiana University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-253-34711-4
- Ali Fahmi Khashim, Zarruq, the Sufi: A guide in the way and a leader to the truth : a biographical and critical study of a mystic from North Africa
- Salah Hussein Al-Houdalieh, "Visitation and Making Vows at the Shrine of Shaykh Shihab Al-Din," Journal of Islamic Studies, 21,3 (2010), 377–390.
External links
- Zaineb S. Istrabadi, Qawa’id al-Tasawwuf, The Principles of Sufism, annotated translation with introduction, Phd thesis with extensive information on his life, times, contemporaries and interpretation of the text (pdf-file) [1] Archived 9 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- Foundations of the spiritual path by Sidi Ahmad Zarruq, translated by Hamza Yusuf (pdf-file) [2]
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