Mohammed ibn Kiran
Moroccan religious scholar
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| Intro | Moroccan religious scholar | |
| Places | Morocco | |
| was | Writer Scholar Religious scholar | |
| Work field | Literature | |
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| Religion: | Islam | |
| Birth | 1758, Fez, Fez Prefecture, Fès-Meknès, Morocco | |
| Death | 1812 (aged 54 years) | |
| Residence | Fez, Fez Prefecture, Fès-Meknès, Morocco |
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Muhammad al-Tayyib ibn Kiran (Arabic: محمد الطيب بن كيران; 1172/1758-1227/1812) was a Moroccan, religious scholar from Fes. He also played an active political role.
Ibn Kiran is the author of Risala bn Saud, a response, written at the request of the sultan mulay Slimane, to the manifesto of the Wahhabis. He has written several commentaries, including one on al-Ghazali's Ihya and another on the Alfiyya of Ibn Malik. He also wrote Iqd nafais alla-ali fi tahrik al-himam al-awali, a popular religious work. Ibn Kiran was a teacher at Al-Qarawiyyin University and the teacher of Ahmad Ibn Idris Al-Fasi and Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi.