12 Facts About Sidi Boushaki

Sidi Boushaki was raised in a very spiritual environment with high Islamic values and ethics within the Algerian Islamic reference.

Sidi Boushaki Ez-Zaouaoui was born in 1394 CE in the Col des Beni Aicha, at the village of Soumaa within the region of Tizi Naith Aicha, in the Khachna massif, an extension of Djurdjura.

Sidi Boushaki began his studies in the village of Thala Oufella in Thenia in 1398 CE, before joining Bejaia in 1404 CE, very young, to continue his studies.

Sidi Boushaki made his destination in 1415 to Tunis, where he deepened his knowledge of Maliki Madhhab.

Sidi Boushaki was a student of Abdelwahed Al Fariani in the foundations of Islam.

Sidi Boushaki returned in 1420 to the mountains of Bejaia where he deepened in Arabic at Abd El Aali Ibn Ferradj.

Sidi Boushaki went to Constantine in 1423 where he lived for many years, and he received the teachings in the Muslim faith and logic in "Abu Zeid Abderrahmane", nicknamed "El Bez".

Sidi Boushaki studied prose, verse, fiqh and the majority of the theological sciences of the time at Ibn Marzuq El Hafid, the Maghreb and Tlemcen scholar who had visited Constantine to preach his knowledge, not to be confused with his father Ibn Marzuq El Khatib.

Sidi Boushaki joined Mecca for pilgrimage and study, then moved to Damascus where he attended the teachings of Imam Ibn al-Jazari in the sciences of the Qur'an.

Sidi Boushaki died in 1453, and was buried in the Thenia Mountains near Zawiyet Sidi Boushaki in his native Kabyle tribe of the Igawawen.

Back in Kabylia during the last few years of his life, Sidi Boushaki then founded a zawiya in which he taught his disciples according to the Qadiriyya Sufi brotherhood of Sunni Sufism.

Sidi Boushaki's works cover several aspects of the Islamic sciences, including:.