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 Wasiyya That Was Never Written — and What Al-Dabbāgh Saw in Its Place
Ibn ʿAbbās called it the greatest of calamities. A Ḥasanī sharīf in eighteenth-century Fez names it from direct vision — and his compiler writes it down, argues against half of it, and cannot suppress any of it. Al-Ibrīz is the most canonical text of Moroccan Sufism and its most conflicted.
The Ṣiddīqī Saints Were Right About Everything — Except the One Thing That Mattered
The Ṣiddīqī tradition produced the greatest saints in Islamic history. It also missed the Imams the Prophet ﷺ intended to leave behind. Al-Ibrīz, written by a Ṣiddīqī compiler and a Ḥasanī saint, holds both truths simultaneously — and never resolves the tension between them.