Al-Sayyid Muhammad ibn Alawi ibn Abbas al-Maliki (1947 - 2004) was a prominent Islamic scholar from Saudi Arabia. He was born in Mecca to a family of reputed scholars who, like himself, taught in the Sacred Mosque.

Whereas Wahhabism is the official branch of Islam in Saudi Arabia, al-Maliki adhered to the Maliki traditional school of Islamic jurisprudence, and was a renowned teacher of Sufism. Because of this difference with the Wahhabi religious establishment, al-Maliki has been accused of heresy, banned from preaching at the Sacred Mosque, had his passport revoked, and has even been arrested.

See also

• Maliki
• Sufism

External links

• Getting to know the Sufis by Stephen Schwartz, The Weekly Standard
• The path ahead, Macleans.ca
• Obituary by Shaykh Seraj Hendricks
• Obituary by Shafiq Morton
• Obituary on Islamica Magazine
• Biography of al-Maliki
• A defence of the Ash'ari school by Muhammad al-Maliki

Sufis | Muslim scholars | Saudi Arabian people