Abd al-Rahman al-Majdoub
Abd al-Rahman al-Majdoub | |
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عبد الرحمان المجدوب | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | March , 1506 |
| Died | 26 May 1568 (aged 62) Marshaqa village, Habt region, Morocco |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Sufi Islam |
| Arabic name | |
| Personal (Ism) | ʿAbd al-Raḥmān |
| Patronymic (Nasab) | ibn ʿAyyad ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Salama ibn Khashshān |
| Teknonymic (Kunya) | Abū Zayd; Abū Muḥammad |
| Epithet (Laqab) | al-Majdhūb |
| Toponymic (Nisba) | al-Ṣanhājī al-Dukkālī al-Farajī |
Sidi Abderrahman el Majdoub (Arabic: عبد الرحمان المجدوب, romanized: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Majdhūb, March 1506 – 26 May 1568), also transcribed as Mejdub, full name al-Shaykh Abu Zayd Abderrahman al-Majdoub ibn Ayyad ibn Yaacub ibn Salama ibn Khashan al-Sanhaji al-Dukkali, was a Moroccan poet, Sufi and mystic. Many lines of his poems are known throughout the Maghreb, and his work is the source of many proverbs (e.g. "doubt is the beginning of wisdom").