Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Maghīlī (Arabic: محمد بن عبد الكريم المغيلي), commonly known as Al-Maghīlī (Arabic: المغيلي); 909–840 AH/ 1440–1505 CE) was a Berber Sunni scholar from Tlemcen, the capital of the Kingdom of Tlemcen, now in modern-day Algeria and came to be the most influential medieval scholar of West Africa. He is chiefly remembered for three things: his campaigns against the Jews, his position as an Islamic reformer, and his contributions to political theory.
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Maghīlī (Arabic: محمد بن عبد الكريم المغيلي), commonly known as Al-Maghīlī (Arabic: المغيلي); 909–840 AH/ 1440–1505 CE) was a Berber Sunni scholar from Tlemcen, the capital of the Kingdom of Tlemcen, now in modern-day Algeria and came to be the most influential medieval scholar of West Africa. He is chiefly remembered for three things: his campaigns against the Jews, his position as an Islamic reformer, and his contributions to political theory.
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