The Jaras of Marrakesh: ʿAbdallāh al-Ghazwānī, Sultan of the Jazūliyya
Shaykh ʿAbdallāh al-Ghazwānī (d. 935/1528) — Mūl al-Quṣūr, one of the Seven Saints of Marrakesh — completed what al-Jazūlī started and al-Tabbāʿ organized. His Nuqṭa al-Azaliyya gave the Muḥammadan ṭarīqa its systematic doctrine. His school produced the Sharqāwiyya, the Dilāʾiyya, and every major Sufi lineage in Morocco.
Against the Corrected Shaykh: Al-Jazūlī and the Politics of Prophetic Proximity
In 869/1465, two answers competed for Morocco's soul. Zarruq offered the corrected shaykh — authority verified by law, earned through discipline, revocable by scholarly judgment. Al-Jazūlī offered prophetic blood — sharīfian nasab as the isnād that no critique could reach, the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt as cosmological portrait, and a dawla already constituted. Morocco chose. This article is about what it chose — and what it could not abandon.
The Other Leg: Why Moroccan Sufism Is Incomplete Without Zarrūq
Aḥmad Zarrūq al-Fāsī (d. 899/1493) fixed Sufism's broken compass and sent Morocco its wildest saints. The architect behind al-Dabbāgh, the Darqāwiyya, and the Tijāniyya — buried in an unknown grave in Libya, unvisited by the civilization he built.