Name Abderrahman Majdoub Role Poet | Died 1568, Fes, Morocco | |
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Parents Ayad bin Yacoub bin Salama bin Khshan | ||
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Sidi Abderrahman el Majdoub (Arabic: عبد الرحمان المجذوب , 1506-1568), 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 North African poet, Sufi and mystic. He was born into a Berber family. 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").
El Majdoub was born in Tit a village near Azemmour, in Morocco, in 1506 and moved with his father to Meknes two years later. He mentions his birthplace and origins in many of his Quaterns. He memorized the entire Quran and the 10 different ways of recitation. He lived during the rise of the Saadi dynasty under the reign of Mohammed ash-Sheikh and Abdallah al-Ghalib. This period also saw the rise of the Othoman Empire in Algeria and Tunisia.
El Majdoub died in 1568 in Fes, in Morocco. His tomb is in Meknes, near gate Aissa, where later the mausoleum of Moulay Ismail was built. The tomb attracts many visitors every day.
