Muhammad al-Tayyib ibn Kiran (
Arabic: محمد الطيب بن كيران; 1172/1758-1227/1812) was a Moroccan, religious scholar from
Fes. He also played an active political role.
Ibn Kiran is the author of Risala bn Saud, a response, written at the request of the sultan
mulay Slimane, to the manifesto of the Wahhabis.[1] He has written several commentaries, including one on
al-Ghazali's Ihya and another on the Alfiyya of
Ibn Malik. He also wrote Iqd nafais alla-ali fi tahrik al-himam al-awali, a popular religious work. Ibn Kiran was a teacher at
Al-Qarawiyyin University and the teacher of
Ahmad Ibn Idris Al-Fasi and
Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi.[2]