Muhammad bin Al-Qasim al-Qundusi explained

Native Name:محمد بن القاسم القندوسي
Native Name Lang:ar
Birth Date:1790
Birth Place:Kénadsa, southwest Algeria
Known For:Calligraphy

Muhammad Bin Al-Qāsim al-Qundūsi (; born c. 1790 – died 1861) was an Algerian Sufi calligrapher and scholar who was born in Qanaadasa in southwest Algeria.

Biography

Al-Qundusi was born in Qanaadasa in 1790 in southwest Algeria.[1] [2] In 1828, he migrated to Fes, where he lived and had a hanout in the herb market, in which he sold herbs.[3]

He lived in relative obscurity, though those who knew him described him as gnostic, saintly, esoterically knowledgeable, and spiritually insightful.[4]

He wrote many books and transcribed a number of dawawin, or collected works. He conferred upon the Moroccan Alawite Sultan Sliman a degree in knowledge of the Dala'il al-Khayrat, a seminal Sufi text composed by the 15th-century Muhammad al-Jazuli.[5] al-Qundusi passed away in 1861.[6]

He was a Sufi associated with the Qadiri and Nasiri orders.[7]

Calligraphy

He was a talented calligrapher, specializing in a flamboyant style of the Maghrebi script that he innovated. He also created a copy of the Quran in 12 volumes which he finished on September 7–8, 1850, and which is kept in al-Khizāna al-Ḥassania.[8]

He drew the name of Allah in the Zawiya of Idriss II in Fes.[9]

Works

His works include:

Legacy

Most of his works are now kept at the national library in Rabat.[14]

His works inspired a typeface called Qandus,[15] which was designed by Kristyan Sarkis of TPTQ Arabic, and won the Type Directors Club's 2017 Typeface Design Award.[16]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Pierre Joris, Habib Tengour . Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four The University of California Book of North African Literature . Univ of California Press . 1995 . 978-0-520-26913-2 . 265.
  2. Book: الأعلام - ج 7 - محمد بن قاسم - نافع بن الحارث . IslamKotob . ar . 2019-12-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191220130408/https://books.google.com/books?id=iBRKCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT7 . 2019-12-20 . live.
  3. Book: IslamKotob. الشرب المحضر والسر المنتظر من معين أهل القرن الثالث عشر. IslamKotob. ar.
  4. Web site: Muhammad al-Qandusi. Awliya Map. en-GB. 2019-12-21.
  5. Book: أبي عبد الله محمد بن. طريق المعراج إلى حضرة صاحب التاج. 2015-01-01. Dar Al Kotob Al Ilmiyah دار الكتب العلمية. 978-2-7451-7515-1. ar. https://web.archive.org/web/20191220200336/https://books.google.com/books?id=YfZHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA19 . 2019-12-20. 2019-12-20. live.
  6. Book: البهنسي, عفيف. معجم مصطلحات الخط العربي والخطاطين. 1995 . مكتبة لبنان ناشرون. الأولى. بيروت. 123.
  7. Web site: The Grand Elixir of Invocations . 2020-06-13 . www.goodreads.com.
  8. الأعلام - خير الدين الزركلي - ج 7 - الصفحة 9
  9. Book: أبي عبد الله محمد بن. طريق المعراج إلى حضرة صاحب التاج. 2015-01-01. Dar Al Kotob Al Ilmiyah دار الكتب العلمية. 978-2-7451-7515-1. ar. https://web.archive.org/web/20191220160108/https://books.google.com/books?id=YfZHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA61 . 2019-12-20. 2019-12-20. live.
  10. Book: الأعلام - ج 7 - محمد بن قاسم - نافع بن الحارث. IslamKotob. https://web.archive.org/web/20191220130408/https://books.google.com/books?id=iBRKCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT7 . 2019-12-20. 2019-12-20. live.
  11. Book: طريق المعراج إلى حضرة صاحب التاج. 2015-01-01. Dar Al Kotob Al Ilmiyah دار الكتب العلمية. 978-2-7451-7515-1. https://web.archive.org/web/20191220140512/https://books.google.com/books?id=YfZHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA19 . 2019-12-20. 2019-12-20. live.
  12. Book: al-Qandusi, Muhammad Bin al-Qasim. The Drink of the People of Purity. Muhammadan Press. 2014. 978-9810904135.
  13. Book: طريق المعراج إلى حضرة صاحب التاج. 2015-01-01. Dar Al Kotob Al Ilmiyah دار الكتب العلمية. 978-2-7451-7515-1. https://web.archive.org/web/20191220133045/https://books.google.com/books?id=YfZHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA19 . 2019-12-20. 2019-12-20. live.
  14. Book: Habib., Joris, Pierre. Tengour. Poems for the millennium : the University of California book of North African literature.. 2012. University of California Press. 978-0-520-95379-6. 879553614.
  15. Web site: Qandus – Laura Meseguer. 2019-12-20.
  16. Web site: Typeface Design 2017. 2019-12-20.

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