The Maghrib
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al-Maghrib · the Maghrib · the black land of the West · المغاربة
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Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The Islamic West, named as the region whose Mālikī imams rejected Mālik's own ruling on the heretic's repentance.
Among the imams of the Maghrib, Baqī ibn Makhlad and Ibn al-Mawwāz differed from him and followed the remaining imams.
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi
The western lands from whose horizon the lights of the realities spread over the souls of those made ready, above all through Ibn ʻArabī.
This, together with the fact that the lights of the realities were spread abroad upon the horizons of the souls of those made ready from the black land of the West (*al-Maghrib*), and especially from the presence of the verifying shaykh, the unique one, the exacting imām, the divinely aided, the very eye of the notables among the witnesses, the man who is the pupil of the eye of existence, Muḥyī a …