H. T. Norris
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198265382
- eISBN:
- 9780191682889
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198265382.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
Shayk Ahmad al-Sādiq is the author of the Qudwa. In a study of scholars and holy men of Islam in Muslim Africa, it was demonstrated that Agades and Aïr were centrally situated on the routes which ...
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Shayk Ahmad al-Sādiq is the author of the Qudwa. In a study of scholars and holy men of Islam in Muslim Africa, it was demonstrated that Agades and Aïr were centrally situated on the routes which linked the Sūfī retreats of the Atlas on the one hand, with those in the Upper Nile valley on the other. It is significant that Shayk Ahmad al-Yamanī hailed from this latter region. The sojourn of Shayk Ahmad al-Yamanī in Agades first took place in 1078–9/1670. Some ten years later, in 1089–90/1680, when he and his companions reached Agades, they learnt of the martyrdom of Shayk al-Burnāwī at the hands of the Tuareg, and at the same time, of the recent decease of Shayk Ahmad al-Sādiq. Shayk Ahmad al-Sādiq died between 1670 and 1680. Either much of the Qudwa text was composed between these two dates, or it may have been composed before. Shaykh Admad al-Yamanī may have read it and taken some of its content with him to Morocco.Less
Shayk Ahmad al-Sādiq is the author of the Qudwa. In a study of scholars and holy men of Islam in Muslim Africa, it was demonstrated that Agades and Aïr were centrally situated on the routes which linked the Sūfī retreats of the Atlas on the one hand, with those in the Upper Nile valley on the other. It is significant that Shayk Ahmad al-Yamanī hailed from this latter region. The sojourn of Shayk Ahmad al-Yamanī in Agades first took place in 1078–9/1670. Some ten years later, in 1089–90/1680, when he and his companions reached Agades, they learnt of the martyrdom of Shayk al-Burnāwī at the hands of the Tuareg, and at the same time, of the recent decease of Shayk Ahmad al-Sādiq. Shayk Ahmad al-Sādiq died between 1670 and 1680. Either much of the Qudwa text was composed between these two dates, or it may have been composed before. Shaykh Admad al-Yamanī may have read it and taken some of its content with him to Morocco.
H. T. Norris
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198265382
- eISBN:
- 9780191682889
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198265382.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
This chapter describes the accounts of martyrdom of Sīdī Mahmūd as written in the Qudwa. The text says that the saint was martyred at Aghalanga, but it charges the Sultān of Agades and his jurists ...
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This chapter describes the accounts of martyrdom of Sīdī Mahmūd as written in the Qudwa. The text says that the saint was martyred at Aghalanga, but it charges the Sultān of Agades and his jurists for the events which led up to the martyrdom. It draws attention to two specific factors that determined the Sultān's actions: a hostility on the part of the jurists of the Sultān to oriental mysticism of the kind which Sīdī Mahmūd had introduced; and that the Sharīfian statutes of Sīdī Mahmūd put him in a peculiar and hallowed category in Aïr society at that time, giving him a protection and freedom of action denied to others.Less
This chapter describes the accounts of martyrdom of Sīdī Mahmūd as written in the Qudwa. The text says that the saint was martyred at Aghalanga, but it charges the Sultān of Agades and his jurists for the events which led up to the martyrdom. It draws attention to two specific factors that determined the Sultān's actions: a hostility on the part of the jurists of the Sultān to oriental mysticism of the kind which Sīdī Mahmūd had introduced; and that the Sharīfian statutes of Sīdī Mahmūd put him in a peculiar and hallowed category in Aïr society at that time, giving him a protection and freedom of action denied to others.
