Sidi Megdoul Explained

Sidi Mogdoul was a Moroccan Wali and religious leader who lived in the 11th-century. He was buried in Essaouira.

Sidi Megdoul came from the noble Berber tribe of Regraga, and was credited with renewing the Ribat of Sidi Chiker. From his base in Essaouira, he fought the Berghwata confederacy and later allied with the Almoravids and participated in the propagation of their Da'wa.[1] [2]

The saint also gave his name to the nearby lighthouse, 17 meter high, named the Sidi Mogdoul lighthouse.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Book: at-Tashawwof. Ibn al-Zayyat al-Tadili. Ibn al-Zayyat al-Tadili.
  2. Book: Ashomos al-Munira. Ahmed ar-Regragui.
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=hMDL-iCyOwwC&pg=PA207 NGA Sailing Directions-Enroute: 2008 West Coast of Europe and Northwest Africa Griffes, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency p.207