Tamegroute

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Darija: ; romanized: Tamgrout}} is a village located in the Draa River valley in the foothills of the Moroccan pre-Sahara. In Tamazigh languages, the name literally translates to "Final Place Before the Desert."

It historically served as a hub of learning, libraries, and religion through its famous Sufi zawiya, the historical center of the Nasiriyya order, one of the most influential Sufi orders in the Islamic world. Tamegroute's glazed ceramics are also very well known.

Climate

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|Jan high C = 20.4 |Feb high C = 22.7 |Mar high C = 26.1 |Apr high C = 30.9 |May high C = 35.6 |Jun high C = 41.0 |Jul high C = 45.1 |Aug high C = 43.8 |Sep high C = 36.8 |Oct high C = 31.1 |Nov high C = 25.2 |Dec high C = 20.5

|Jan low C = 4.1 |Feb low C = 6.2 |Mar low C = 9.8 |Apr low C = 13.3 |May low C = 17.4 |Jun low C = 21.7 |Jul low C = 25.4 |Aug low C = 25.4 |Sep low C = 20.1 |Oct low C = 15.3 |Nov low C = 10.7 |Dec low C = 5.6

|Jan precipitation mm = 3 |Feb precipitation mm = 3 |Mar precipitation mm = 4 |Apr precipitation mm = 1 |May precipitation mm = 1 |Jun precipitation mm = 0 |Jul precipitation mm = 1 |Aug precipitation mm = 3 |Sep precipitation mm = 5 |Oct precipitation mm = 11 |Nov precipitation mm = 13 |Dec precipitation mm = 6 |year precipitation mm= 51

|source = Climate-data.org |date=14 March 2018}}

History

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Tamegroute has been a religious center since the 11th century. It had a religious school made famous by Abu Hafs Umar b. Ahmed al Ansari in 1575–76. The Nasiriyya order took its name from founder Sidi Muhammad bin Nasir al-Drawi (1603–1674), who took over teaching at the Tamegroute zawiya in the 1640s.

Ahmed ibn Nasir who was the son of its founder Mohammed ibn Nasir, made six pilgrimages to Mecca, travelling to Ethiopia, Arabia, Egypt, Iraq and Persia. During his travels he established new branches of the Sufi brotherhood. He wrote a series of memoirs of his journeys called the Rihlat Sayyid Al-ṭarīqah. He brought back numerous books from all parts of the Islamic world, which formed the basis of the library at Tamegroute. His translated works can be found saved in the Library of Congress in the United States

The 19th sheikh Abu Bekr is well-known, in the Draa valley (zawiya in Mhamid Ghuslan) and in the west through his encounters with the travelers Gerhard Rohlfs and Charles de Foucauld. In order to view the books at the library, a permit must be obtained from the Moroccan government, which allows you to handle the books inside the library only. The books collected by Ali Ben include texts on medicine, Qu'ranic learning and astrology, as well as mathematics and the sciences.

Moussem

A month after the greatest Islam holy day of Aid el-Kebir, Tamegroute hosts the yearly Moussem (festival) honoring Sidi Muhammad bin Nasir.

Pottery

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The outdoor weekly market (souk) is held on Saturdays in the city center, where people can admire all kinds of pottery.

Abu-l-Hasan Ali Ibn Mohammed al-Tamgruti

Tamegroute was the place of birth of one of the most important officials of the Saadian court, the author and ambassador Abu-l-Hasan Ali Ibn Mohammed al-Tamgruti, best known because of the rihla of his journey to Istanbul in 1590–91 for Ahmad al-Mansur.

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Footnotes

References

  2. "Tamegroute".
  3. link. (2007-07-16 ed. Scott Reese. Leiden: Brill Academic Press, 2004.)
  4. [Ibn al-Nāṣir, Muḥammad ibn Nāṣir. Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrá al-Musammā bi-Lawāqiḥ al-Anwār fī Ṭabaqāt al-Akhyār. Edited by Muḥammad al-Fāsī, Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Qādir Shāhīn, and ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Maḥmūd, vol. 1, al-Mamlakah al-Maghribīyah, Wizārat al-Awqāf wa-al-Shuʼūn al-Islāmīyah, 1982, https://www.loc.gov/item/69035208/]
  5. Gerhard Rohlfs, ''Mein erster Aufenthalt in Marokko und Reise südlich vom Atlas durch die Oasen Draa und Tafilet'', Bremen, 1873, [http://www.ihaystack.com/authors/r/gerhard_rohlfs/00015890_mein_erster_aufenthalt_in_marokko_und_reise_sdlich_v/00015890_german_iso88591_p014.htm Chapter 15: Die Draa-Oase. Mordversuch auf den Reisenden. Ankunft in Algerien] {{Webarchive. link. (2007-09-28)
  6. cf. Gutelius, [https://books.google.com/books?id=zP5Zk8ixR3QC&dq=david+gutelius+transmission&pg=PA15 "Sufi networks and the Social Contexts for Scholarship in Morocco and the Northern Sahara, 1660–1830"]
  7. [https://desertmoroccoadventure.com/Morocco-info/List-of-weekly-open-air-markets-in-the-province-of-zagora.pdf List of weekly open-air markets in the province of Zagora ]
  8. Tamegruti is the author of Al-Nafha al Miskiya fi al Sifara al Turkiya (Arabic title), (A 16th century travel account of Istanbul by a Moroccan ambassador), Keta-books, 2002 (French translation: Relation d'une ambassade marocaine en Turquie, 1589–1591, par Abou-l-Hasan Ali ben Mohammed et-Tamgrouti, traduite et annotée par Henry de Castries, Paris, 1929)

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