born 1928
Moroccan religious leader.
A former school inspector fluent in English and French, he began practicing Sufism in the 1960s. By the early 1970s he had adopted a more political view of Islam and was influenced by the writings of the Egyptian Islamists Ḥasan al- Bannā and Sayyid Qutb . After sending a letter to the king of Morocco advocating the establishment of an Islamic state
a consistent theme in his work
he was confined to a mental institution (1974–77), and in 1986 he founded a movement, Charity and Justice. From 1989 he was under house arrest.