Abu Yaaza
Abu Yaaza Yalnur ibn Maymun ibn Abdallah Dukkali Hazmiri al-Gharbi (d. 1 Shawwal 572/2 April 1177) (also Bouazza) was a 12th-century Moroccan Sufi Saint.[1]
Early life and career
Abu Yaaza was from a sub-Atlantic Berber tribe. He was a student of Abu Shuayb and the teacher of Abu Madyan.[1] Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi wrote his biography: Di'amat al-yaqin fi za'amat al-muttaqin (The Pillar of certainty in the leadership of the God-conscious). His grave and mosque was renovated in 1691 by Sultan Moulay Ismael. A yearly moussem is celebrated in his honour.[2]
He mausoleum is located in the eponymous town of Moulay Bouazza.
Footnotes
- ^ a b Lévi-Provençal, Évariste. "Abū Yaʿazzā". Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.). Brill Publishers.
- ^ Halima Ferhat, Le soufisme et les zaouias au Maghreb, Casablanca, Toubkal, 2003, p.131-136 and 102