Abu Muhammad Salih al-Majiri: The Ghawth of Asafi and the Saint Who Linked Morocco to Mecca

Abū Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ al-Mājirī (d. 631/1234) — the Maṣmūda saint from Āsafī who spent twenty years in Ayyūbid Alexandria, endured three khalwas under al-Jīlānī in Baghdad, founded the Ḥujjājiyya that linked Morocco to the Ḥaramayn, raised the orphan heir of the Ḥarāzimī rābiṭa, and whose silsila al-Buṣayrī certified in a dedicated qaṣīda calling him Ghawth al-Wujūd. Drawing on the Minhāj al-Wāḍiḥ and primary sources, this article reconstructs the life of the saint whose institutional achievement prepared the ground for the Shādhiliyya itself.