Ahmad ibn Ajiba

Ahmad ibn Ajiba
Personal life
BornAbu al-‘Abbas Ahmad b. Muhammad b. al-Mahdi Ibn ‘Ajibah al-Hasani
1747 (1747)
Khamis, Morocco
Died1809 (aged 61–62)
Tetouan, Morocco
NationalityMoroccan
Notable work(s)
  • Al-Bahr Al-Madid (The Immense Ocean)
  • Mi'raj al-tashawwuf ila haqa'iq al-tasawwuf (The Book of Ascension)
  • Al-ʿumda fī sharḥ al-burda
  • Īqāẓ al-himam fī sharḥ al-ḥikam
  • Autobiography (Fahrasa)
Known forHis works on Sufism and Quranic exegesis
OccupationScholar, poet, Sufi
Religious life
ReligionIslam

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAjība al-Ḥasanī (Arabic: أحمد بن عجيبة; 1747–1809) was an influential 18th-century Moroccan scholar and poet in the Sunni Darqawa Sufi lineage.

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