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Identification

al-Ġumārī, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. al-Ṣiddīq al-Ḥasanī الغماري، أحمد بن محمد بن الصديق الحسني

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Ghumari was a leader of the Siddiqiyya Sufi order, a branch of the larger Shadhili order. He was a Sufi, but he was a strong critic of many Sufi orders, especially the Naqshbandi . Unlike most of Moroccan scholarship, al-Ghumari opposed the Ash'ari school of theology.
He was known for a debate between him and the hadith scholar al-Albani.

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