At a glance
- Roles
- Poet · mystic · Scholar
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Maghreb · Egypt & Nile
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
sufi (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
'Afif al-Din al-Tilimsani, the poet-littérateur — among the greats of the ta'ifa professing absolute unity, as the Sunni source presents him, calling him one of the zanadiqa of the sufis and relaying grave accusations against him, then admitting none of it is established by a sound route; Ibn Sab'in praised him and preferred him over his own shaykh al-Qunawi. 1
Works and death
His works: a commentary on God's beautiful names, on al-Niffari's Mawaqif, on the Nusus, and a diwan. Ibn al-Fashusha al-Katibi said: I entered on him the day he died and he said — "how should one who knows God fear Him? By God, since I knew Him I have not feared Him, and I rejoice at meeting Him." 1
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 720-722
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Afif al-Din al-Tilimsani”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/afif-al-din-al-tilimsani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.