Ahmad ibn Idris al-Fasi

Ahmad ibn Idris al-Fasi (Arabic: أحمد بن إدريس الفاسي) (1760–1837) was a Moroccan Sunni Islamic scholar, jurist and Sufi,[1] active in Morocco, the Hejaz, Egypt, and Yemen.

[5] In 1799 he arrived in Mecca, where he would "exercise his greatest influence, attracting students from all corners of the Islamic world".

[7] It is also called the Tariqa Muhammadiyya, and it rejected following any of the four schools of Islamic jurisprudence (Taqlid),[8][9] adopting the same methodology as Ismail Dehlavi, who remarked that the agenda of the new order known as Tariqa Muhammadiyya was to purify Islam and reject what they deemed to be Bid'ah or Shirk.

[12] He emphasized the importance of piety, prayer, religious learning (especially the Prophetic traditions), and close following of Muhammad's example.

In a sense, the one teaching underlying all of his thought was a direct and fundamental attachment to God and Muhammad, achieved through piety, minimizing the mediation of any other human authority.