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Muhammad ibn Maryam
Born	Tlemcen
Died	1615 (1616) Tlemcen
Burial place	Tlemcen
Arabic name
Personal (Ism)	Muhammad محمد
Patronymic (Nasab)	ibn Maryam ابن مريم
Teknonymic (Kunya)	Abu Abdallah أبو عبد الله
Toponymic (Nisba)	الشريف المديوني التلمساني al-Sharif al-Madyuni al-Tilimsani

Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Maryam al-Sharif al-Tilimsani (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن محمد بن مريم الشريف التلمساني; died c. 1615 CE, commonly known as Ibn Maryam, was an Islamic scholar, historian, and hagiographer from Tlemcen (present-day Algeria).

He is best known as the author of the biographical dictionary Al-Bustan fi dhikr al-awliya wa al-ulama bi-Tilimsan. This work is considered the definitive primary source for the intellectual and religious history of the Maghreb, particularly regarding the scholars and Sufis of Tlemcen. Living during the transitional period between the Zayyanid decline and the establishment of Ottoman rule, Ibn Maryam's writings preserved the biographies of hundreds of scholars of the city.

References

Bibliography

• رزوق [Razzoug], وسام [Wissame] (2021-06-15). "جهود ابن مريم التلمساني في نشر وتقريب العقيدة الأشعرية" [The Efforts of Ibn Maryam al-Tilmisani in Spreading and Approximating the Ash'ari Creed]. مجلة الدراسات العقدية ومقارنة الأديان [Journal of Creedal Studies and Comparative Religions] (in Arabic). 10 (1): 91–111.

Further reading

• Vadet, J.-C. (2016). "Ibn Maryam". Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.). Brill.
• Abi-Mershed, Osama (2001), "The Transmission of Knowledge and the Education of the 'Ulama in Late Sixteenth-Century Maghrib : A Study of the Biographical Dictionary of Muhammad ibn Maryam", in Fay, Mary Ann (ed.), Auto/Biography and the Construction of Identity and Community in the Middle East, New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 19–36, doi:10.1007/978-1-349-62114-9_3, ISBN 978-1-349-62114-9, retrieved 2026-02-23