محمد بن مبارك التستاوتي و ضريحه : التراث الصوفي و المعماري و سبل التثمين

Abstract EN

Morocco defined a period of political vacuum during the transitional phase between the two covenants of Al-Watasi and Al-Saadi at the beginning of the 10th century Ad, where innovations and customs replaced Islamic law, especially in the countrysides.

The Iberians conquered the Moroccan coasts and natural disasters were exacerbated.

A large number of the righteous and mujahedeen came to defend the country's estate.

,the establishment of security, and the organization of the people.

Thus a group of them turned in to preachers in the eyes of the people at a stage known among the researchers as: "the plenty of preachers," during which Badia ( the countryside) was the main supplier of righteousness because a number of good people spend in the city a period of his life in the city to learn before coming back to his region to establish Zawia (an Islamic school in which students rehearse Quran, Hadiths, and everything related to Islam) .

One of the preachers of the region of Zayan during this stage, was Sheikh Ahmed ibn Mubarak al-Za'ari al-Tastouti.

Who is this mystic? How did he contribute during his life and after his death in building the Sufi cultural heritage of the region?