The intellectual life: Morocco's geographical location, being at the edge of the Islamic world, and far from its major capitals, as well as the historical circumstances that accompanied the entry of Islam into this region, and the quality of the preachers who brought it to it as a creed and civilization, all of this made its intellectual situation for centuries extending to this era we are talking about, different in many of its characteristics and features from the intellectual situation in other parts of the Islamic world. To clarify the picture of that situation with some clarity, we will analyze it from the following different aspects: A. Schools of thought and sects: If the East witnessed the emergence of many jurisprudential and theological schools of thought in a short period, the Maghreb did not witness the birth of any of the important schools of thought whose principles were laid down by one of its own sons. It seems that this land cannot tolerate the multiplicity of schools of thought, nor is it comfortable with their arguments and clamor. In addition to not being fertile ground for schools of thought, it has only attracted a few of them, and most of what comes to it tends to wither and remain on the fringes of life.

It appears that the first jurisprudential school of thought to enter Andalusia and the Maghreb was the school of Imam Al-Awza'i. This is what Al-Humaydi indicated in "Al-Jadhwa" (d. 474 AH). Al-Awza'i was Abd al-Rahman ibn Amr al-Awza'i, the Imam of Sham in jurisprudence and asceticism. He was born in Baalbek, grew up in the Biqa, and died in Beirut. He was an independent jurist with his own school of thought in jurisprudence. He has the book "Al-Sunan" and the book "Al-Masail". See his biography in: Ibn Khallikan, Wafiyat, vol. 3, p. 127.

As for Al-Asbagh, he was Asbagh ibn al-Faraj ibn Said ibn Nafi', a prominent Maliki jurist in Egypt, who died in the year 225 AH / 839 AD. See: Ibn Khallikan, Wafiyat, vol. 1, p. 238.

He was Ashhab ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn Dawud al-Qaybi, an Egyptian jurist, one of Malik's companions, who died in Egypt in the year 204 AH / 819 AD. See: Ibn Khallikan, Wafiyat, vol. 1, p. 240.

See Al-Marrakushi, Al-Mu'jib, pp. 235-236.

Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Futuh al-Humaydi, "Jadhwat al-Mu'tabas", p. 46.