Sidi Boushaki[1] or Ibrahim Ibn Faïd Ez-Zaouaoui[2] (Arabic: إبراهيم بن فايد الزواوي) (1394 CE/796 AH – 1453 CE/857 AH) was a Malikitheologian born near the town of Thenia, 54 km (34 mi) east of Algiers.[3] He was raised in a very spiritual environment with high Islamic values and ethics within the Algerian Islamic reference.[4][5]
He began his studies in the village of Thala Oufella (Soumâa) in Thénia in 1398 CE, before joining Béjaïa in 1404 CE, very young, to continue his studies.[10]
Béjaïa was then at the beginning of the fifteenth century a religious center and a place of influence of Sufism.[12]
He made his destination in 1415 to Tunis, where he deepened his knowledge of MalikiMadhhab.[13]
There he studied the tafsir of the Quran at the judge Abu Abdallah Al Kalchani, and he received the Maliki fiqh from Yaakub Ez-Zaghbi.[14]
He was a student of Abdelwahed Al Fariani in the foundations (Oussoul) of Islam.[15]
He returned in 1420 to the mountains of Béjaïa where he deepened in Arabic at Abd El Aali Ibn Ferradj.[16]
He went to Constantine in 1423 where he lived for many years, and he received the teachings in the Muslim faith (Aqidah) and logic in "Abu Zeid Abderrahmane", nicknamed "El Bez".[17]
The Sufi order of Qadiriyya was hardly followed in this zawiya for three centuries until the tariqa Rahmaniyya took over in the Algérois region and Kabylia as a model of the ascetic course.[26][27]
Works
His works cover several aspects of the Islamic sciences, including:
Facilitating the Path for an extract of the flowers of Rawd Khalil is an explanation of Mukhtasar Khalil's summary of Maliki jurisprudence (Arabic: تسهيل السبيل لمقتطف أزهار روض خليل).[31]
Flood of the Nile is an explanation of Mukhtasar Khalil's summary of Maliki jurisprudence (Arabic: فيض النيل).[32]
^أحمد/الداوودي, شمس الدين محمد بن علي بن (January 1, 2002). طبقات المفسرين. Dar Al Kotob Al Ilmiyah دار الكتب العلمية. ISBN9782745133281 – via Google Books.
