Abu Yahya ibn al-Sakkak

Abu Yahya ibn al-Sakkak al-Miknasi (Arabic: ابن السكاك المكناسي) (full name: Abu Yahya or Abu Abd Allah Mohammed ibn Abu Ghalib ibn Ahmad ibn Mohammed ibn Abu-l-Hasan Ali ibn Mohammed ibn as-Sakkak al-Miknasi; d. 22 May 1415), was a Moroccan historian, genealogist, judge, Maliki scholar and Sufi mystic. He was born in Fez into the Ibn al-Sakkak family, a Berber family from the Miknasa tribe. He was a friend of Ibn Khaldun, they both studied under al-Sharif al-Tilimsani. al-Sakkak was especially well known as author of an advice to Muslim kings, Nush muluk al-islam bi-al-tarif bi-ma yajibu alay-him min huquq ila bayt al-kiram. In his advice Ibn Sakkak expressed skepticism about the divine right claimed by some rulers in his time.

Ibn Sakkak shi ne kuma marubucin Kitab al-Uslub min-al-kalam 'ala la hawla wa-la quwwata illa billah (wanda aka sani da Kitab al-Asalib), littafi na farko game da Tariqa Shadhiliyya a Maroko, inda ya yi amfani da sunan "Shadhili" ga Ibn Abbad al-Rundi (d. 792/1377). 

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