Mawlāy ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Dabbāgh: Biography of a Saint in an Age of State-Building
Shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Dabbāgh, the unlettered Idrissid saint of 18th-century Fez, became a defining voice of Moroccan Sufism through his visionary teachings preserved in Al-Ibrīz.
The Dabbagh Family of Morocco: Twelve Centuries of Sharīfian Authority
A scholarly exploration of the Dabbāgh family of Morocco, tracing twelve centuries of Sharīfian lineage, Sufi authority, and institutional legitimacy from the Idrisids to the modern era.
The Prophetic Axis: Al-Ibrīz and Morocco’s Metaphysics of Spiritual Inheritance
In the Dabbāghī horizon, the Qurʾān’s seven aḥruf appear as seven modes of Muḥammadan light, so that every recitation quietly measures and rewrites the soul’s interior geometry.
Rewriting Wilāya: Dabbāgh, the Niẓāmī Triplex, and the Institutional Shaykh
A critical study of institutional Sufism: from the Niẓāmiyya’s reshaping of sainthood to al-Dabbāgh’s redefinition of spiritual authority beyond institutions.