[2] He is considered one of the first Sufis as well as one of the first philosophers of al-Andalus.
[5] In his youth, he travelled to Kairouan and Mecca before settling in the Sierra Morena near his home town.
After his death in 931, his followers were accused of heresy and forced to publicly recant his teachings by the Umayyad authorities.
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