IBN IDRIS, AHMAD
IBN IDRIS, AHMAD (1749/50-1837), Moroccan Sufi and teacher and founder of the Idrisiyah tradition. Despite his importance within nineteenth-century Islamic history, very little is known of the life of Ibn Idris, and contemporary accounts are sparse. Ibn Idris was born near Larache in Morocco into a family of Idrisi sharifs. He studied for some thirty
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