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Abu Shuayb

Patron saint of Azemmour, Morocco

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 27, 2024
Entity authorityQ4670359 ↗
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Abu Shuayb Ayub Ibn Said Erredad al-Sanhaji Assariya (Arabic: أبو شعيب أيوب بن سعيد الصنهاجي) (French transliteration Abou Chouaib) (died 1176–7) is the patron saint of Azemmour, Morocco. His brotherhood is called the Shuaybiya.

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“Abu Shuayb” enters the record as patron saint of Azemmour, Morocco. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Shuayb, Patron and saint can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1176—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Shuayb, Patron and saint.
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This entry incorporates text from “Abu Shuayb” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.