Muhammad Bin Al-QÃÂsim al-Qundà «si ( ; born c. 1790 â died 1861) was an Algerian Sufi calligrapher and scholar who was born in Qanaadasa in southwest Algeria.
Al-Qundusi was born in Qanaadasa in 1790 in southwest Algeria. In 1828, he migrated to Fes, where he lived and had a hanout in the herb market, in which he sold herbs.
He lived in relative obscurity, though those who knew him described him as gnostic, saintly, esoterically knowledgeable, and spiritually insightful.
He wrote many books and transcribed a number of dawawin, or collected works. He conferred upon the Moroccan Alawite Sultan Sliman a degree in knowledge of the Dala'il al-Khayrat, a seminal Sufi text composed by the 15th-century Muhammad al-Jazuli. al-Qundusi died in 1861.
He was a Sufi associated with the Qadiri and Nasiri orders.
He was a talented calligrapher, specializing in a flamboyant style of the Maghrebi script that he innovated. He also created a copy of the Quran in 12 volumes which he finished on September 7âÂÂ8, 1850, and which is kept in al-KhizÃÂna al-Ḥassania. He drew the name of Allah in the Zawiya of Idriss II in Fes.
His works include:
Most of his works are now kept at the national library in Rabat.
His works inspired a typeface called Qandus, which was designed by Kristyan Sarkis of TPTQ Arabic, and won the Type Directors Club's 2017 Typeface Design Award.