Mohammed ibn al-Tayyib

Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Musa ibn 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, a large number of 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]

Works

Quranic Interpretation or Exegesis

Hadith

Biography (in the field of religious studies)

Sufism

Fiqh

Biographies (in the field of history)

Grammar and Morphology

Lexicography

Literature and literary Studies

References

  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
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