Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Kattānī

Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Idrīs al-Kattānī (sometimes transcribed as Kettani or Kittani )(Arabic: محمد بن جعفر بن إدريس الكتاني‎, born 1858 in Fes and died 1927) was a Moroccan scholar and theologian from the 19th century.

Moroccan literature
Moroccan writers
  • Novelists
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  • Poets
  • Essayists
  • Historians
  • Travel writers
  • Sufi writers
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  • Morocco Portal
  • Literature Portal
Table of contents of al- Azhār al-ʻāṭirat al-anfās bi-dhikr baʻḍ maḥāshin quṭb al-Maghrib wa-tāj madīnat Fās, printed in Fes on a lithographic press in the late 19th century.

Works

His best known book is the famous Saints from Fes (Salwa al-Anfās), or Kitāb salwat al-anfās wa-muḥadatha al-akiyas mi-man uqbira min al-ʿulamā wa al-ṣulaḥa bi-Fās, lithographed Arabic edition originally 1898.[1]

He also wrote al- Azhār al-ʻāṭirat al-anfās bi-dhikr baʻḍ maḥāsin quṭb al-Maghrib wa-tāj madīnat Fās (الأزهار العاطرة الأنفاس بذكر بعض محاسن قطب المغرب وتاج مدينة فاس).[2]

Notes
  1. Julie Scott Meisami, Paul Starkey, Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature. Routledge, 1998 ISBN 978-0-415-18572-1, see entry on Al-Kattani, p. 428
  2. "Book". Arabic Collections Online. Retrieved 2020-06-09.

References
  • Fernando Rodríguez Mediano, Santos arrebatados: Algunos ejemplos de Maydub en la Salwat al-anfäs de Muhammad al-Kattani, 1992
  • Bettina Dennerlein, “Asserting Authority”, in: Gudrun Krämer, Sabine Schmidtke, Speaking for Islam: religious authorities in Muslim societies, BRILL, 2006, p. 128 ff, Online Google books (retrieved January 6, 2011)


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