Sidi Boushaki

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Sidi Brahim Boushaki
إبراهيم بن فايد الزواوي
File:Ourdjouzate Sidi Boushaki أرجوزة سيدي بوسحاقي - شرح قطر الندى ابن هشام.jpg Book of Sidi Boushaki
Born	1394 ce/796 ah Thenia, Algeria
Died	1453 ce/857 ah Thenia, Algeria
Years active	1394 - 1453
Theological work
Language	Amazigh - Arabic
Tradition or movement	Islam
Main interests	Fiqh

Sidi Boushaki (1394 ce/796 ah – 1453 ce/857 ah) was born near the town of Thenia, 54 km east of Algiers. He was raised in a very spiritual environment with high Islamic values and ethics.

Biography

Sidi Boushaki Ez-Zaouaoui was born in 1394 ce in Aïth Aïcha, at Tizi Naïth Aïcha, in the Khechna massif, an extension of Djurdjura.

He began his studies in the village of Soumâa (Thala Oufella) in Thénia in 1398 ce, before joining Béjaïa in 1404 ce, very young, to continue his studies.

There he studied the Quran and the Maliki fiqh as a pupil with "Ali Menguelleti", a recognized theologian from Kabylie.

Béjaïa was then at the beginning of the fifteenth century a religious center and a place of influence of Sufism.

He made his destination in 1415 to Tunis, where he deepened his knowledge of Maliki Madhhab.

There he studied the tafsir of the Quran at the judge Abu Abdallah Al Kalchani, and he received the Maliki fiqh from Yaakub Ez-Zaghbi.

He was a student of Abdelwahed Al Fariani in the foundations (Oussoul) of Islam.

He returned in 1420 to the mountains of Béjaïa where he deepened in Arabic at Abd El Aali Ibn Ferradj.

He went to Constantine in 1423 where he lived for many years, and he received the teachings in the Muslim faith (Aslain) and logic in "Abu Zeid Abderrahmane", nicknamed "El Bez".

He studied prose, verse, fiqh and the majority of the theological sciences of the time at Ibn Marzouk El Hafid (ar) (1365 - 1439), the Maghreb scholar who had visited Constantine to preach his knowledge , not to be confused with his father Ibn Marzouk El Khatib (1310 - 1379).

He joined Mecca for pilgrimage and study.

He died in 1453, and was buried in the Thenia Mountains in his native Kabyle tribe.

See also

• Mohamed Seghir Boushaki