Sidi Ali ibn Harzihim (
Arabic: علي بن حرزهم) or Abul Hasan Ali ibn Ismail ibn Mohammed ibn Abdallah ibn Harzihim/Hirzihim (also: Sidi Hrazem or Sidi Harazim) was born in
Fes,
Morocco and died in that same city in 559/1163.[1] He was a berber[2]Sufi teacher, leader of a Ghazalian
zawiya in
Fes and was the spiritual master of
Abu Madyan. The water source "Sidi Harazim" was called after him.
^Michaux-Bellaire, Édouard; Péretié, A. (December 1911).
"Les Marabouts (2)". Revue du monde musulman. 16 (12): 138.
^Mercedes García-Arenal, Messianism And Puritanical Reform: Mahdis of the Muslim West, translated by Martin Beagles, Brill, 2006
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