13 Notable alumni of
University of Al Quaraouiyine
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The University of Al Quaraouiyine is 1789th in the world, 40th in Africa, and 2nd in Morocco by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 13 notable alumni from the University of Al Quaraouiyine sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Leo Africanus
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- writergeographerexplorerdiplomat
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Johannes Leo Africanus was an Andalusi diplomat and author who is best known for his 1526 book Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica, later published by Giovanni Battista Ramusio as Descrittione dell'Africa (Description of Africa) in 1550, centered on the geography of the Maghreb and Nile Valley. The book was regarded among his scholarly peers in Europe as the most authoritative treatise on the subject until the modern exploration of Africa. For this work, Leo became a household name among European geographers. He converted from Islam to Christianity and changed his name to Johannes Leo de Medicis (يوحنا الأسد). Leo possibly returned to North Africa in 1528.
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Allal al-Fassi
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- politicianrevolutionarypoetwriterliterary
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Muhammad Allal al-Fassi was a Moroccan revolutionary, politician, writer, poet, Pan-Arabist and Islamic scholar.
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Abu Madyan
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- theologianQutbpoet
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Abu Madyan Shuʿayb ibn al-Husayn al-Ansari al-Andalusi, commonly known as Abū Madyan, was an influential Andalusian mystic and a great Sufi master.
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Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
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- scholartranslator
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Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din bin Abdil-Qadir Al-Hilali was a 20th-century Moroccan Salafi, most notable for his English translations of Sahih Bukhari and, along with Muhammad Muhsin Khan, the Qur'an, entitled The Noble Qur'an.
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Abdelkrim Ghallab
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- journalistwriter
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Abdelkrim Ghallab was a Moroccan political journalist, cultural commentator, and novelist. He is an important figure both in the literary and political field (editor of the Istiqlal Party daily al-Alam).
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Muhammad Abu Khubzah
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- biographermuhaddithIslamic juristlinguisthistorian
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Abu Uways Muhammad Abu Khubza al-Hassani was a Moroccan Muslim theologian, jurist, bibliographer and linguist. His name has variantly been spelled "Bukhabza," "Boukhabza," Bu Khabza," and "Bu Khubza."
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Mohammed Ameziane
- Enrolled in the University of Al Quaraouiyine
- Studied sharia
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- resistance fighterqadiAmghar (title)
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Mohammed ben al-Hajj Amezian, also known as El Mizzian by the Spanish, was a Moroccan sharif who served as the main leader of the Rifian resistance against Spanish rule in northern Morocco prior to the rise of Abd el-Krim in 1921.
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Ahmed Raïssouni
- Enrolled in the University of Al Quaraouiyine
- In 1978 graduated with licentiate
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- social criticʿālimwriterIslamic juristuniversity teacher
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Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Raïssouni is a Moroccan Islamic scholar and jurist. He served as president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) until his retirement in 2022. He was the former head of the Movement of Unity and Reform (MUR), an organization closely linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Moroccan Justice and Development Party.
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Abdelhadi Tazi
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- essayistpoliticianwriterhistoriandiplomat
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Abdelhadi Tazi was a scholar, writer, historian and former Moroccan ambassador in various countries.
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Ahmed Bahnini
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- politicianjudge
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Ahmed Bahnini was a Moroccan politician who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Morocco from 1963 to 1965 under King Hassan II. He also served as President of the Supreme Court. Bahnini was killed during a failed coup attempt against Hassan II on 10 July 1971.
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Sidi Ben Arous
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- walī
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Ahmed ben Arous, full name: Abu al-Abbas Ahmed Ben Abdallah ben Abu Bakr al-Houari, Tunisian Arabic: أحمد بن عروس; was a Tunisian Wali, religious leader and founder of the Arousia Tariqa.
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Ahmed Skirej
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- professorqadiʿālim
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Ahmed Sukayrij or Abu-l-Abbas Ahmed ibn al-Iyyashi Sukayrij al-Khazraji Al-Ansari al-Fasi was a well known Moroccan Sufi scholar and judge. He wrote a great number of books, but is especially well known for his voluminous work on the companions of Sidi Ahmad al-Tijani: Kitab kashf al-Hijab ámman talaaqa bi-Shaykh Tijani mina-l As'hab (Raising the veil of the companions who encountered Sheikh Tijani). The Moroccan jurist and shaykh Ahmad sukayrij was a judge (qadi) according to the Maliki legal school of thought (madhab) for Morocco. Not only this, but he is placed alongside Ibrahim niasse on one of the major shaykhs of the tijani Tariqah. The shaykh wrote around 160 books which includes a 20,000 line Nazm on suyuuti's “Khasā’is al kubra” and a 500 line nazm on both a busiri's qasidah burdah and Qadi Iyad’s book “shifa”. the shaykh had more than 600 Ijazahs and before his death, the shaykh saw qadi ‘iyad in a vision and asked to be buried like him (qadi ‘iyad).
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Al-Bannani
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- writer
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Muhammad ibn al-Hassan al-Bannani, more commonly referred to in books of Islamic law as al-Bannani or Imam al-Banani, was an 18th-century Muslim jurist from Fes, Morocco, and a scholar in the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh).
