Muhammad ibn Sulaiman al-Jazuli

Muhammad ibn Sulaiman al-Jazuli (1404/1405 – 1465, Safi), full name Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Sulaiman ibn Abu Bakr al-Jazuli al-Simlali (Arabic: : ابو عبدالله محمد ابن ملالي الحسني ّ سليمان ابن ابوبكر الجزولي الس ), also known as Imam al-Jazuli, Sheikh Jazuli or AlJazuli, Al-Jazuli lived in the Sous area of Morocco. After studying in his own region, he went to the Madrasat As-Saffarîn in Fez, where his room is still open to visitors today. There he also met the famous jurist and mystic Ahmad Zarruq. Afterwards he spent forty years in Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem. Eventually he returned to Fez where he completed the prayer book Dala’il al-Khayrat, that became one of the most popular Islamic prayerbooks, especially in the Ottoman Empire. Al-Jazuli was a Moroccan scholar in the mystical Islamic Sufi movement. He gathered many followers around him in Safi. The governor of Safi murdered him by poisoning. In the northern part of Medina of Marrakesh sultan Ahmad al-Araj (1517-1544) had built a mausoleum for Muhammad ibn Sulaiman al-Jazuli.