Mohammed ibn Jaafar al-Kattani

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Mohammed ibn Jaafar ibn Idris al-Kattani (sometimes transcribed as Kettani or Kittani )(Arabic: محمد بن جعفر بن إدريس الكتاني‎, born 1858 in Fes and died 1927) was a Moroccan scholar and theologian from the 19th century. His best known book is the famous "Saints from Fes" (Salwa al-Anfas), or "Kitab salwat al-anfas wa muhadathat al-akiyas mi-man uqbira min al-ulama wa al-sulaha bi Fas", lithographed Arabic edition originally 1898.^[1]

Notes

1. ^ Julie Scott Meisami, Paul Starkey, Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature. Routledge, 1998 ISBN 978-0415185721, see entry on Al-Kattani, p. 428

References

• Fernando Rodríguez Mediano, Santos arrebatados: Algunos ejemplos de Maydub en la Salwat al-anfäs de Muhammad al-kattani, 1992
• Bettina Dennerlein, "Asserting Authority", in: Gudrun Krämer, Sabine Schmidtke, Speaking for Islam: religious authorities in Muslim societies, BRILL, 2006 , p. 128 ff, Online Google books [1] (retrieved January 6 2011)

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Name	Kettani, Mohammed ibn Jaafar
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Date of birth	1858
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Date of death	1927
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