al-ʿAlawī, Jamāl al-Dīn - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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von Kügelgen, Anke
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Jamāl al-Dīn al-ʿAlawī (1945-12 July 1992) was a Moroccan professor of Islamic philosophy and one of the leading Ibn Rushd specialists of the twentieth century. He was raised in an aristocratic and tradition-conscious family (his father was a renowned poet and qāḍī at the sharīʿa court in Fez). After having completed an Arabic-based primary and secondary education he entered the Muḥammad V University in Rabat in 1963. He studied philosophy with Najīb Baladī, Muḥammad ʿAzīz al-Ḥabbābī (Lahbabī), and, for a short time, Muḥammad ʿĀbid