Ibn Ajiba al-Hasani أحمد بن محمد بن المهدي ابن عجيبة الحسني

Shaykh Ahmad b. Muhammad Ibn Ajiba al-Hasani rahimahullah (1160-1224 AH / 1747-1809 CE) was a Moroccan Sharifi scholar and master of the Darqawi-Shadhili Sufi path from Tetouan. Initially formed in jurisprudence and the Arabic grammatical sciences, he was drawn into the Shadhili-Darqawi spiritual lineage through Shaykh Muhammad al-Buzidi. His major works span multiple disciplines: Iqaz al-Himam fi Sharh al-Hikam is his expansive commentary on the Hikam of Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari - recognized within the Moroccan-Egyptian Shadhili tradition as the most accessible and spiritually nourishing of the major commentaries on that text. Al-Bahr al-Madid is his multi-volume Sufi tafsir of the Qur'an. His autobiography al-Fahrasa documents his spiritual formation and is itself a classical work of its genre. Together these works establish him as one of the central figures of eighteenth and nineteenth century Maghribi Sufism.