Abu Abdallah Mohammed al-Murabit al-Dila'i

Abu Abdallah Mohammed al-Murabit al-Dila'i
Abu Abdallah Mohammed al-Murabit al-Dila'i
أبو عبد الله محمد المرابط الدلائي
Title	Al-Murabit
Personal
Born	Abu Abdallah Mohammed al-Hajj ibn Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Abd-al-Rahman ibn Abu Bakr al-Dilai; Fez, Morocco
Died	1678
Nationality	Moroccan
Notable work(s)	Al-Rihla al-Mujaddasa, Al Kitab Zawahir al-Fikri, Zahr al-hada'ih, Al-Zahr al-nadi fi-l-khuluk al-muhammadi, Durrat al-tidjan
Known for	Renowned linguist, Scholar of Arabic grammar and usul-al-fiqh (law)
Occupation	Scholar, Linguist
Relatives	Abu Bakr ibn Mohammed al-Majati as-Sanhaji (grandfather), Mohammed al-Hajj (brother)

Abu Abdallah Mohammed al-Hajj ibn Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Abd-al-Rahman ibn Abu Bakr al-Dilai (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد المرابط الدلائي; d. 1678), also known as Al-Murabit, was a renowned linguist and scholar of Arabic grammar and usul-al-fiqh (law).^[1] He was the grandson of the founder of the zaouia of Dila, Abu Bakr ibn Mohammed al-Majati as-Sanhaji (1526-1612) and brother of Mohammed al-Hajj (died 1661),^[2] who proclaimed himself Sultan of Fez in 1659. Al-Dila'i wrote (a.o.) treatises on law (Al Kitab Zawahir al-Fikri), poems in praise of Muhammad (Zahr al-hada'ih and Al-Zahr al-nadi fi-l-khuluk al-muhammadi).^[3]^[4] And an urdjuza (poem in a specific meter) about the Shurafa, Durrat al-tidjan.^[5]^[6] Al-Dila'i performed the Hajj, along with his father, in 1659 and wrote his Rihla (account of the journey) in the form of a poem of 136 lines, entitled Al-Rihla al-Mujaddasa. He was the teacher of Abu Ali al-Hassan al-Yusi (1631–1691).

References

^ Roger M. A. Allen et al., Essays in Literary Biography, 1350-1850, 2009, p.415
^ O. Houdas, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Aḥmad al-Zayyānī (1886). Le Maroc de 1631 à 1812 / de Aboulqâsem ben Ahmed Ezziâni (in French). Paris, Ernest Leroux. p. 13.
^ M. Lakhdar, La Vie literaire au Maroc sous la dynastie Alawide, Rabat, 1971, p.166-8
^ Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Encyclopedie de l'Islam, Brill Archive, 1981, p. 224
^ Hasan Jalab, Abu 'Abdi Allah Muhammad al Murabit al Dila'i (about his life and literary production), Keta Books, 1997
^ Vajda, Georges, "Note sur l'oeuvre de Muhammad al-Murabit Ad-Dilai", Hesperis 1956, T. XLIII, 1er-2eme trimestres, pp. 215-216