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Jamāl al-Dīn b. Muḥammad al-Annī

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Jamāl al-Dīn b. Muhammad al-Annī (d. 1882) was one of Islamic scholars from Annā, Rayya, Wollo, Ethiopia. He introduced Qādirī order in the region. He qualified many scholars like Muḥammad al-Dānī who later became his khalīfa (successor) at Dana, Habru, Ethiopia. He died and was buried in Koramē, a place in Habru district, North Wollo, Ethiopia.[1][2][3]

He is said to have composed 99 works on dhikr and ṣalawāt including Kifāyat al-ṭālibīn fī maʿrifat muhimmāt al-dīn.[3]

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  1. ^ John Spencer Trimingham (1952). Islam in Ethiopia, by J. Spencer Trimingham. Oxford University Press, G. Cumberlege. OCLC 458382994.
  2. ^ Ahmed, Hussein (2001). Islam in nineteenth-century Wallo, Ethiopia : revival, reform, and reaction. Brill. ISBN 9004119094. OCLC 925620084.
  3. ^ a b Ahmed, Hussein (1988). "Introducing an Arabic hagiography from Wallo"". Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies. 8: 194.