Mohammed ibn al-Tayyib

Who is Mohammed ibn al-Tayyib?

Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Musa ibn Mohammed al-Sharqi al-Sumayli ibn Tayyib al-Fasi al-Alami was a famous Moroccan linguist, historian and scholar of fikh and hadith. He is the author of sixteen books on grammar and morphology, nine books on lexicography, a large number of books on quranic interpretation and exegesis, hadith, sufism, fiqh and biographies of famous poets and scholars of Al-Andalus. He also wrote The Companion of the Performer. One of his many teachers was the music theorist Bu 'Isami. Ibn al-Tayyib is the author of a well known rihla, Rihla ila al-Hijaz.