Abu al-Hasan al-Shushtari
Abu-al-Hasan Ali ben Abdallah al-Nuymari as-Shushtari or Al-Sustari was an Andalusian Sufi poet. His poetry was designed to be sung, in songs employing simple monorhymes to praise God with everyday musical idiom, which won wide recognition beyond the hundreds of disciples in his own Shushtariyya brotherhood.
Many verses of al-Shushtari's poetry were identified in the classical Andalusian music that is today sung in Morocco. In the Mashriq, he is mostly remembered today for his poem A little sheikh from the land of Meknes a song which retains huge popularity.Recordings
- Ritual sufí andalusí, al-Shushtari, Omar Metioui, Eduardo Paniagua, Madrid, Pneuma, 1998
- Dhikr y sama':canto religioso de la cofradía sufí-andalusí al-Shushtari. Poemas del místico al-Shushtari, Omar Metioui, Eduardo Paniagua, Madrid, Pneuma, 1998.
