Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Kattani

Table of contents of al- Azhār al-ʻāṭirat al-anfās bi-dhikr baʻḍ maḥāshin quṭb al-Maghrib wa-tāj madīnat Fās, printed in Fes on a lithographic press in the late 19th century.

Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Idrīs al-Kattānī (sometimes transcribed as Kettani or Kittani )(Template:Lang-ar, born 1858 in Fes and died 1927) was a Moroccan scholar and theologian from the 19th century.

Works

His best known book is the famous Saints from Fes (Salwa al-Anfās), or Kitāb salwat al-anfās wa-muḥadatha al-akiyas mi-man uqbira min al-ʿulamā wa al-ṣulaḥa bi-Fās, lithographed Arabic edition originally 1898.

He also wrote al- Azhār al-ʻāṭirat al-anfās bi-dhikr baʻḍ maḥāsin quṭb al-Maghrib wa-tāj madīnat Fās (الأزهار العاطرة الأنفاس بذكر بعض محاسن قطب المغرب وتاج مدينة فاس).

References

• Fernando Rodríguez Mediano, Santos arrebatados: Algunos ejemplos de Maydub en la Salwat al-anfäs de Muhammad al-Kattani, 1992
• Bettina Dennerlein, “Asserting Authority”, in: Gudrun Krämer, Sabine Schmidtke, Speaking for Islam: religious authorities in Muslim societies, BRILL, 2006, p. 128 ff, Online Google books [1] (retrieved January 6, 2011)