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* Eliette Abécassis (born 1969) *

Leila Abouzeid Leila Abouzeid ( ar, ليلة أبو زيد) (born 1950, El Ksiba) is a Moroccan author.'Abu Zayd, Layla', in Simon Gikandi, ed., ''Encyclopedia of African Literature''. Routledge; 2002. . She writes in Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is ...

(born 1950) * Mohammed Achaari (born 1951) * Said Achtouk (died 1989) * Issa Aït Belize * Lotfi Akalay (1943–2019) * Mohammed Akoujan *

Mehdi Akhrif Mehdi () is a common Arabic masculine given name, meaning "rightly guided". People having the name Mehdi are in general originating from Iran mostly and sometimes India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Azerbaijan, France, Morocco, Algeria, ...

(born 1952) * Mohammed ibn Mohammed Alami (1932–1993) * Idriss ibn al-Hassan al-Alami (1925–2007) * Ahmad al-Tayyeb Aldj (1928–2012) * Tewfik Allal (born 1947) * Farid al-Ansari (1960–2009) * Najib El Aoufi (born 1948) *

Robert Assaraf Robert Assaraf ( ar, روبرت الصراف) (5 November 1936 in Rabat – 5 March 2018 in Ramat HaSharon) was a Moroccan Jewish historian and writer. He resided between Paris, France and Marrakesh, Morocco. Personal life Assaraf married Mic ...

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Nabil Ayouch Nabil Ayouch (born 1 April 1969) is a Franco-Moroccan television and film director, producer, and writer. His films have screened at international film festivals including the Cannes Film Festival and Montreal World Film Festival. Early life H ...

(born 1969) * Ali Azaykou (1942–2004)

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* * Souad Bahéchar (born 1953) * Latifa Baka (born 1964) * Ahmed Barakat (1960–1994) *

Muriel Barbery Muriel Barbery (born 28 May 1969) is a French novelist and philosophy teacher. Her 2006 novel '' The Elegance of the Hedgehog'' quickly sold more than a million copies in several countries. Biography Barbery was born in Rabat, Morocco, but she an ...

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Laarbi Batma Laarbi Batma (or Laarbi Batma) ( ar, العربي باطما; born in Chaouia; 1948 - 7 February 1997) was a Moroccan musician, poet, singer, writer, actor, and the front man of the group Nass El Ghiwane. Early life Batma grew up in the Hay ...

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Hafsa Bekri-Lamrani Hafsa or Hafsah ( ar, حفصة; which is very often confused with ''Hafza'' and ''Hafiza'', but all three of them are different names) is an Arabic female given name. It originated from Hafsa, the fourth wife of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and d ...

Abdelmalek Belghiti Abdelmalek Belghiti (1906 in Fes – 2010) was a writer who has been called the prince of the poets of Morocco in the 1950s.Admin, ''Marocwebo'', November 23, 2010, "Décès du poète Abdelmalek Belghiti" http://www.marocwebo.com/deces-poete-a ...

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Abdeslam Benabdelali Abd al-Salam ( ar, عبد السلام) is a male Muslim honorific or given name, built on the Arabic words '' Abd'', ''al-'' and '' Salam''. The name means "servant of the All-peaceable", ''as-Salam'' being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, w ...

Abdelkader Benali Abdelkader Benali ( ar, عبد القادر بنعلي; born 25 November 1975 in Ighazzazen, Morocco) is a Moroccan-Dutch writer and journalist. When he was four years old, he and his family, of Berber background, migrated to The Netherlands an ...

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(1920–1965) * Zoubeir Ben Bouchta *

Halima Ben Haddou Halima or Halimah or Halime and Halimeh ( ar, حليمة ) /halima/, pronounced ha-LEE-mah, is a female given name of Arabic origin meaning forebearing, gentle, mild-mannered and generous. It may refer to: People with the mononym * Halimah IV, al ...

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Tahar Ben Jelloun Tahar Ben Jelloun ( ar, الطاهر بن جلون; born in Fes, Morocco, 1 December 1944) is a Moroccan writer. All of his work is written in French although his first language is Darija. He became known for his 1985 novel ''L’Enfant de Sable ...

(born 1944) * Siham Benchekroun * Ahmed Benchemsi *

Rajae Benchemsi Rajae Benchemsi (born 1957 in Meknes) is a Moroccan writer. Benchemsi studied literature in Paris and wrote her thesis on Maurice Blanchot. She has published collections of poetry in Morocco and in France France (), officially the Fr ...

(born 1957) * Esther Bendahan (born 1964) * Abdelmajid Benjelloun (1919–1981) * Abdelmajid Benjelloun (born 1944) *

Abdelwahab Benmansour Abdelwahab Benmansour ( ar, عبد الوهاب بن منصور ; born 1920, Fes – died 13 November 2008, Rabat) was a Moroccan historian and civil servant. His most important work is "The tribes of Morocco" ( ar, قبائل المغرب), a ...

(1920–13 November 2008) * Abdelouahid Bennani (born 1958) *

Mohammed Suerte Bennani Mohammed Suerte Bennani (born Rabat Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 ...

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Mohammed Bennis Mohammed Bennis ( ar, محمد بنيس; born 1948) is a Moroccan poet and one of the most prominent writers of modern Arabic poetry. Since the 1970s, he has enjoyed a particular status within Arab culture. Muhsin J al-Musawi states that "Bennis’ ...

(born 1948) * Khnata Bennouna (born 1940) *

Mohammed Benzakour Mohammed Benzakour (born 10 January 1972 in Nador, Morocco) is a Moroccan-Dutch columnist, essayist, poet, writer and politician. He is the third child in a family of five. At age three, he and mother and siblings settle in Zwijndrecht, Netherland ...

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Mohammed Berrada Mohammed Berrada ( ar, محمد برادة), also transliterated Muhammad Baradah (born 1938 in Rabat) is a Moroccan novelist, literary critic and translator writing in Arabic. He is considered one of Morocco's most important modern authors.Salim ...

(born 1938) * Hafsa Bikri (born 1948) * Mahi Binebine (born 1959) * Mohammed Ibrahim Bouallou (born 1934) *

Ali Bourequat Ali Bourequat is a successful Moroccan/Tunisian businessman who was secretly arrested and incarcerated for years by the Moroccan government in the infamous secret prison Tazmamart.Alain Brossat, Jean-Louis Déotte, ''La mort dissoute: disparitio ...

* Hassan Bourkia (born 1956) *

Ahmed Bouzfour Ahmed Bouzfour ( ar, أحمد بوزفور) (born 1940s, in Taza) is a Moroccan novelist. Biography Born in the early 1940s near to Taza, Bouzfour received his primary education and learned the Qur'an in a Quranic school. He then studied at th ...

(born 1954) * Al-Yazid al-Buzidi Bujrafi (1925–2011)

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Mohamed Chafik Mohamed Chafik (; ), born 17 September 1926, is a leading figure in the Amazigh (also known as Berber) cultural movement. An original author of the Amazigh Manifesto, he was later appointed as the first Rector of the Royal Institute of the Ama ...

(born 1926) * Nadia Chafik (born 1962) * Abdelkader Chaoui (born 1950) *

Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi Driss ben Hamed Charhadi (1937–1986) is the alias for Larbi Layachi, a Moroccan story-teller, some of whose stories have been translated by Paul Bowles from Moroccan Arabic to English. His book, '' A Life Full of Holes'' was tape-recorded and t ...

(1937–1986) * Abdelkader Chatt (1904–1992) *

Mohamed Choukri Mohamed Choukri (Arabic: محمد شكري, Berber: ⵎⵓⵃⴰⵎⵎⴻⴷ ⵛⵓⴽⵔⵉ) (15 July 193515November 2003, was a Moroccan author and novelist who is best known for his internationally acclaimed autobiography ''For Bread Alone'' (' ...

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Driss Chraïbi Driss Chraïbi (July 15, 1926 – April 1, 2007) was a Moroccan author whose novels deal with colonialism, culture clashes, generational conflict and the treatment of women and are often perceived as semi-autobiographical. Born in El Jadida an ...

(1926–2007)

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* Mohammed Daoud (1901–1984) * Zakya Daoud (born 1937) * Mohammed Ben Abdelaziz Debbarh (1928–2008) * Farida Diouri (1953–2004)

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* Youssouf Amine Elalamy (born 1961) * Mahdi Elmandjra (1933–2014)

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* Youssef Fadel (born 1949) *

Allal al-Fassi Muhammad Allal al-Fassi (ⵄⵍⵍⴰⵍ ⵍⴼⴰⵙⵉ) (January 10, 1910 – May 13, 1974), was a Moroccan politician, writer, poet and Islamic scholar. Politics He was born in Fes, Morocco. He studied at the University of Al-Qarawiyyin. F ...

(1910–1974) * Malika al-Fassi (1920–2007) * Halima Ferhat (born 1941) * Mohammed al-Habib al-Fourkani (1922–2008)

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Abdelkrim Ghallab Abdelkrim Ghallab (December 31, 1919, in Fes – August 14, 2017, in El Jadida) was a Moroccan political journalist, cultural commentator, and novelist. He is an important figure both in the literary and political field (editor of the Istiqlal Pa ...

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Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari Abd al-Aziz bin Muhammad bin al-Siddiq al-Ghumari ( ar, عبد العزيز بن الصديق; November 1920 in Tangier – November 6, 1997, in Tangier) was a Muslim scholar from Morocco. He is from the Idrissite branch of Moroccan Sayyids that ...

(1920–1997) * Abdullah al-Ghumari (1910–1993) * Ahmad al-Ghumari (1902–1961) *

Abdallah Guennoun Abdellah Guennoun ( ʻAbd Allāh Gannūn, Born 16 September 1908 in Fes – died 9 July 1989 in Tangier) was an influential Moroccan writer, historian, essayist, poet, academic, administrator, journalist, and ''faqīh''. He was one of the leaders ...

(1910–1989) * Soumya Naâmane Guessous

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* Mohammed Aziz El-Hababi (1922–1993) * Mouna Hachim (born 1967) *

Najat El Hachmi Najat El Hachmi (born in Morocco on July 2, 1979) is a Moroccan-Spanish writer. She holds a degree in Arabic Studies from the University of Barcelona. She is the author of a personal essay on her bicultural identity, and three previous novels, t ...

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Ali Haddani Ali Haddani (born 1936 in Fes-died 2007) was a Moroccan songwriter. Some of his songs include "Yak a jarhi", "Qitar Al Hayat", "Kif idir a sidi", "Bared ou skhoun", "Ya dmouîi ya ghla ma âandi", and "Asidi ana hor". Moroccan songwriters 193 ...

(1936–2007) * Badia Hadj Nasser (born 1938) * Allal El Hajjam (born 1948) * Mohammed Hajuji (died 1952) * Mohammed El Haloui (1923–2004) * Mohammed al-Harradi * Ahmed Harrak Srifi (died 1925) * Mohammed ibn al-Hasan al-Hajwi (died 1956) * Ben Salem Himmich (born 1947) *

Emmanuel Hocquard Emmanuel Hocquard (11 April 1940 – 27 January 2019) was a French poet. Life He grew up in Tangier, Morocco. He served as the editor of the small press ''Orange Export Ltd.'' and, with Claude Royet-Journoud, edited two anthologies of new Amer ...

(1940–2019) * Ali Squalli Houssaini (1932–2018)

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Mohammed Abed al-Jabri Mohammed Abed Al Jabri ( ar, محمد عابد الجابري; 27 December 1935 – 3 May 2010 Rabat) was one of the most known Moroccan and Arab philosophers; he taught philosophy, Arab philosophy, and Islamic thought in Mohammed V University ...

(1936–2010) * Salim Jay (born 1951) * Abbas al-Jirari (born 1937) * Abderrafi Jouahri (born 1943) * Abdelkarim Jouiti (born 1962) * Ahmed Joumari (1939–1995)

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Maati Kabbal Maati Kabbal (born 1954 in Khouribga Khouribga ( ber, ⵅⵯⵔⵉⴱⴳⴰ, xʷribga; ar, خريبڭة, ḵurībga, ) is the capital of Khouribga Province in the Béni Mellal-Khénifra region, Morocco. With a population of 196,196 (2014 census ...

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Mohammed Kaghat Mohammed Kaghat (1942–2001) was a Moroccan playwright, actor and stage director. He also directed several feature films and wrote several books on drama and theater in Morocco.Andrew Hammond, ''Pop Culture Arab World!: Media, Arts, and Lifesty ...

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Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine Mohammed Khair-Eddine ( zgh, ⵎⵓⵃⵎⵎⴰⴷ ⵅⴰⵢⵔ ⴷⴷⵉⵏ; ar, محمد خير الدين) (1941 – November 18, 1995) was a Moroccan poet and writer. He was among the most famous Moroccan Berber literary figures of the 20th c ...

(1941–1995) * Mohammed Khammar Kanouni (1938–1991) *

Abdelkebir Khatibi Abdelkebir Khatibi ( ar, عبد الكبير الخطيبي) (11 February 1938 – 16 March 2009) was a prolific Moroccan literary critic, novelist, philosopher, playwright, poet, and sociologist. Affected in his late twenties by the rebellious ...

(1938–2009) * Rita El Khayat (born 1944) *

Driss El Khouri Driss El Khouri (1939 – 14 February 2022) was a Moroccan novelist who was one of the most acclaimed in the country. Life and career El Khouri's books convey strongly the feel of everyday Moroccan life in coffee shops and other urban settings ...

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Abdelfattah Kilito Abdelfattah Kilito ( ar, عبد الفتاح كيليطو; born 10 April 1945, in Rabat) is a Moroccan writer. He is the author of several books in Arabic and in French. He has also written articles for magazines such as ''Poétique'' and '' Stud ...

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Driss Ksikes Driss Ksikes (born 1968 in Casablanca) is a Moroccan journalist. Career He had been an editor-in-chief of the francophone Tel Quel magazine. In 2006, he left TelQuel to be the editor-in-chief and director of publication of the arabophone and ...

(born 1968)

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* Abdellatif Laabi (born 1942) * Abdelrahim Lahbibi (born 1950) * Mohammed Aziz Lahbabi (1922–1993) * Amina Lahbabi-Peters * Leila Lahlou *

Laila Lalami Laila Lalami ( ar, ليلى العلمي, born 1968) is a Moroccan-American novelist, essayist, and professor. After earning her ''Licence de lettres'' degree in Morocco, she received a fellowship to study in the United Kingdom (UK), where she e ...

(born 1968) * Wafaa Lamrani (born 1960) * Abdallah Laroui (born 1933) *

Fouad Laroui Fouad Laroui (born 12 August 1958) is a Moroccan economist and writer, born in Oujda, Morocco. After his studies at the Lycée Lyautey (Casablanca), he joined the prestigious École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (Paris, France), where he st ...

(born 1958) * Mohammed Leftah (1946–2008) * Ahmed Lemsih (born 1950) * Ali Lmrabet (born 1959)

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* Mustafa Maadawi (1937–1961) * Ahmed al-Madini (born 1949) * Edmond Amran El Maleh (1917–2010) * Zahra Mansouri * Ahmed Mejjati (1936–1995) * Driss El Meliani * Saida Menebhi (1952–1977) *

Fatima Mernissi Fatema Mernissi ( ar, فاطمة مرنيسي, Fāṭima Marnīsī; 27 September 1940 – 30 November 2015) was a Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist. Biography Fatema Mernissi was born on 27 September 1940 in Fez, Morocco. She grew up in ...

(1940–2015) * Abderrahmane El Moudden * Omar Mounir * Khireddine Mourad (born 1950) * Malika Moustadraf (1969–2006) * Mohammed El-Moustaoui (born 1943) * Mouad Moutaoukil (born 1997) * Mohamed Mrabet (born 1936)

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* Mririda n'Ait Attik (c. 1900–c. 1930) * Mohammed al-Makki al-Nasiri (1906–1994) * Mohamed Nedali (born 1962) *

Mostafa Nissaboury Nissaboury was co-founders of the magazine '' Anfas/Souffles'' Mostafa Nissaboury (born in Casablanca in 1943) is a Moroccan poetand was a co-founder of the magazine '' Anfas/Souffles'' ("Breaths") with Abdellatif Laabi. Nissaboury was an essays, ...

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* Rachid O (born 1970) * Salah El-Ouadie (born 1952) * Mohammed Hassan El Ouazzani (1910–1978) *

Malika Oufkir Malika Oufkir ( ar, مليكة أوفقير) (born April 2, 1953 in Marrakesh) is a Moroccan Berber writer and former "disappeared". She is the daughter of General Mohamed Oufkir and a cousin of fellow Moroccan writer and actress Leila Shenna. ...

(born 1953) * Touria Oulehri

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Bachir Qamari Bashir Qamari ( ar, بشير القمري; 10 January 1951 – 24 June 2021) was a Moroccan literary critic, novelist and playwright. Biography Qamari was born in Nador in 1951. He studied Arabic literature at the Mohammed V University in Rabat ...

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* Mubarak Rabi (born 1938) *

Mohamed Said Raihani Mohamed Saïd Raïhani ( ar, محمد سعيد الريحاني) is a Moroccan translator, novelist and short-story writer born on December 23, 1968 in Ksar el Kebir, north of Morocco. He is a member of ''Moroccan Writers’ Union'', holder of a ...

(born 1968) * Fouzia Rhissassi *

Najima Rhozali Najima Rhozali or Najima Thay Thay Rhozali ( ar, نجيمة الغوزالي ; born 1960, Oujda) is a Moroccan politician of the National Rally of Independents party. She held the position of Secretary of State for Literacy and non-formal Educ ...

(born 1960)

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* Mohammed Sabbag (born 1930) * Mohammed Sabila * Abdeldjabbar Sahimi (born 1938) * Abdelhadi Said (born 1974) * Amale Samie (1954–2018) * Thouria Saqqat (1935–1992) * Tayeb Seddiki (1938–2016) *

Ahmed Sefrioui Ahmed Sefrioui ( ar, أحمد صفروي) (January 1, 1915 - February 25, 2004) was a Moroccan novelist and pioneer of Moroccan literature in the French language. Biography He was born in Fes, Morocco, Fes in 1915 of Berber people, Berber parent ...

(1915–2004) * Mohamed Serghini (born 1930) * Abdelhak Serhane (born 1950) * Mohamed Sibari (1945–2013) * Hourya Sinaceur * Mohammed Allal Sinaceur (born 1941) * Ali Siqli (born 1932) * Faouzi Skali (born 1953) * Mohammed al-Mokhtar Soussi (1900–1963)

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* Abdelkarim Tabbal (born 1931) * Hicham Tahir (born 1989) *

Abdellah Taïa Abdellah Taïa ( ar, عبد الله الطايع; born 1973) is a Moroccan writer and filmmaker who writes in the French language and has been based in Paris since 1998. He has published eight novels, many of them heavily autobiographical. Hi ...

(born 1973) * Boutaina Tawil * Abdelhadi Tazi (1921–2015) * Mohammed Azeddine Tazi (born 1948) * Mahjoub Tobji (born 1942) *

Abdelkhalek Torres Abdelkhalek Torres ( ar, عبد الخالق الطريس; 1910 – May 27, 1970) was a Morocco, Moroccan journalist and nationalist leader based in Tetouan, Morocco during the Spanish protectorate of Morocco era. He co-founded an arabophone news ...

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Ahmed Toufiq Ahmed Toufiq (born 22 June 1943) is a Moroccan historian and novelist who is serving as Minister for Islamic Affairs in the government of Morocco since 2002. Biography Toufiq was born on 22 June 1943 in the Marigha Village in the High Atlas. Aft ...

(born 1943) * Houcine Toulali (1924–1998) *

Bahaa Trabelsi Bahaa Trabelsi (born 1966) is a Moroccan novelist. Trabelsi was born in Rabat and went to secondary school in Morocco and then she emigrated to France. After her graduation in France (troisième cycle) she returned to Morocco for some time. She ...

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* Tuhami al-Wazzani (1903–1972)

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* Said Yaktine (born 1955) * Yasser Harrak (born 1976) writer, commentator and founder of the Middle East Seminar forum. *

Nadia Yassine Nadia Yassine ( ar, نادية ياسين) (born December 1958) is the head of the women's branch of the Moroccan Islamist movement Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane (Justice and Spirituality). Born in Casablanca, Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially t ...

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Haim Zafrani Haim Zafrani (Arabic : حاييم زعفراني), born in 1922 in Essaouira-2004), was a Moroccan born French scholar and writer. Zafrani is particularly noted for having collected and preserved much or the music and oral poetry of the Jews of M ...

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Mohamed Zafzaf Mohamed Zafzaf (Arabic: ; 1945 – 13 July 2001) was a prominent Arabic-language novelist and poet in 20th century Morocco. He played a pivotal role in the development of Moroccan literature in the second half of the 20th century and, due to ...

(1942–2001) * Mohammed Zniber (1923–1993) *

Abdallah Zrika Abdallah Zrika (Arabic::ar:عبدالله زريقة, عبدالله زريقة) (born 1953 in Casablanca) is one of the most famous Arabic poetry, poets of Morocco. His poetry is free, based on spoken language and unrivalled in contemporary Arab ...

(born 1953)

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* Mohammed ibn Abu al-Qasim al-Sijilmasi (died 1800) * Mohammed ibn Abd as-Salam ibn Nasir (died 1824) * Mohammed Ibn Amr (died 1827) * Ali Barrada al-Fasi Harazim (died 1856) * Thami Mdaghri (died 1856) * Idriss al-Amraoui (died 1879) * Mohammed Gannun (died 1885) * Abu Hassan Ali Mahmud al-Susi al-Simlali (died 1894) * Ahmad ibn Hamdun ibn al-Hajj (died 1898) * Mohammed al-Tahir al-Fasi (1830–1868) * Abd as-Salam al-Alami (1834–1895) *

Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Khalid an-Nasiri as-Slawi, (; 1834/5-1897) was born in Sla, Morocco and is considered to be the greatest Moroccan historian of the 19th century. He was a prominent scholar and a member of the family that founded the Nas ...

(1835–1897) * Salomon Berdugo (1854–1906) * Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Badisi (d. 1922) *

Mohammed ibn Jaafar al-Kattani Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Idrīs al-Kattānī (), born in Fes in 1858 and died in Fes in 1927 was a Moroccan scholar and theologian from the 19th century. Bibliography Al-Kattānī came from a family of Islamic scholars in Fes, the Kattānīyy ...

(1858–1927) * Mohammed Slimani (1863–1926) *

Ibn Zaydan Abd al-Rahman ibn Zaydan () (June 1873 – 1946) was a Moroccan historian and literary author.E. J. van Donzel, ''Islamic Desk Reference: Compiled from the Encyclopaedia of Islam'', ed. BRILL, 1994 , p. 163 "His works may be considered as the bes ...

(1873–1946) * Mohammed Skirej (1875–1965) *

Muhammad Ibn al-Habib Muhammad ibn al-Habib ibn as-Siddiq al-Amghari al-Idrisi al-Hasani (1876–1972), was a Moroccan Islamic teacher, author, and shaykh of the Darqawi ''tariqa'' in Morocco. Life and education Muhammad Ibn al-Habib was born in Fes in 1876. At t ...

(1876–1972) * Ahmed Skirej (1878–1944) * Abdelkrim al-Khattabi (1882–1963) * Mohammed Boujendar (1889–1926) * Abd Allah al-Muwaqqit al-Marrakushi (1894–1949) * Mohammed Ben Brahim (1897–1955)

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* Mohammed ibn abd al-Wahab al-Ghassani (died 1707) * Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Zakur (died 1708) * Mohammed ibn al-Tayyib al-Alami (died 1722) * Hasan ibn Rahlal al-Madani (died 1728) *

Abd al-Qadir ibn Shaqrun Ibn Shakrun or Abu Mohammed Abd al-Kadir ibn al-Arabi al-Munabbahi al-Madaghri ibn Shakrun al-Miknasi (died after 1727/28) was a Moroccan physician and poet and contemporary of Moulay Ismael. He wrote a commentary on a book of grammar, works of po ...

(died after 1727/8) * Mohammed ibn Zakri al-Fasi (died 1731) * Ahmed ibn al-Mubarak al-Lamti al-Sijilmasi (died 1741) *

Khnata bent Bakkar Lalla Khanatha bint Bakkar () also known as Hinata binti Bakar al-Gul (1668–1754), was one of the four wives of Sultan Moulay Ismail (r. 1672–1727), and acted as his de facto First Minister and Secretary. After his death, she remained active ...

(died 1754) * Ibn al-Wannan (died 1773) *

Ahmed al-Ghazzal Ahmed al-Ghazzal () or, in full, Abu l-Abbas Ahmed ibn Al-Mahdi al-Ghazzal al-Andalusi al-Maliqi (died in Fes, 1777) was the secretary of the Moroccan Sultan Mohammed ibn Abdallah (1757–89). Al-Ghazzal is the author of a rihla about his journ ...

(died 1777) * Abd Allah ibn Azzuz (died 1789) * Mohammed ibn Uthman al-Miknasi (died 1799) * Mohammed al-Qadiri (1712–1773) * David Hassine (1722–1792) *

Abu al-Qasim al-Zayyani Abu al-Qasim al-Zayyani () or, in full, Abu al-Qasim ibn Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Ibrahim az-Zayyani (1734/35–1833) was a Moroccan historian, geographer, poet and statesman from the Berber Zayane tribe in Morocco. He undertook diplomatic missi ...

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Kaddour El Alamy Sidi Kaddour El Alami () also transliterated as Qaddur al-Alami (born 1742 in Meknes, died 1850) is one of Morocco's best known poets, especially well known for his songs. His full name was Abd al-Qadir ibn Mohammed ibn Ahmad ibn Abi-l-Qasim al-I ...

(1742–1850) * Mohammed al-Ruhuni (1746–1815) * Raphael Berdugo (1747–1821) * Sulayman al-Hawwat (1747–1816) *

Ahmad ibn Ajiba Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAjība al-Ḥasanī (; 1747–1809) was an influential 18th-century Moroccan scholar and poet in the Darqawa Sufi Sunni Islamic lineage. Biography He was born of a sharif family in the Anjra tribe that ranges from T ...

(1747–1809) * Mohammed al-Duayf (born 1752) * Mohammed al-Tayyib ibn Kiran (1758–1812) * Muhammad al-Arabi al-Darqawi (1760–1823) * Hamdun ibn al-Hajj al-Fasi (1760–1817) *

Ahmad ibn Idris al-Fasi Abu al-Abbās Ahmad Ibn Idris al-Araishi al-Alami al-Idrisi al-Hasani () (1760–1837) was a Moroccan Sunni Islamic scholar, jurist and Sufi, active in Morocco, the Hejaz, Egypt, and Yemen. His main concern was the revivification of the sunnah or ...

(1760–1837) * Suleiman al-Alawi (1760–1822) * Mohammed al-Harraq (1772–1845) *

Mohammed al-Haik Ibn Abdallah Mohammed ibn al-Hussein al-Haik (; born in Tétouan, Morocco) was a Moroccan poet, musician and author of a songbook (el-kunash) comprising eleven nubas, that had been handed down for generations. The songbook, written in 1789, doesn't ...

(fl. 1790) *

Mohammed al-Tawdi ibn Suda Mohammed ibn al-Talib al-Tawudi ibn Suda (; 1700–1795) was one of the most influential scholars of the 18th century in Morocco, both politically and intellectually. He is described by the Egyptian historian, Al-Jabarti, as the "crescent of the ...

(1790–1794/5) * Ahmed al-Salawi (1791–1840) * Mohammed ibn Idris al-Amrawi (1794–1847) * Mohammed Akensus (1797–1877) *

Hemmou Talb Hemmou Talb (Tachelhit: Ḥemmu Eṭṭaleb) is an 18th-century composer of poems in the Tashelhit language of southwestern Morocco. In the Tashelhit Berber oral tradition, he is also known as Bab n Umareg, "the Master of Poetry", and a great numb ...

(18th century)

Seventeenth century

Isaac Uziel Isaac ben Abraham Uziel (died 1 April 1622, Amsterdam) ( he, יצחק בן אברהם עזיאל) was a Moroccan physician, poet and grammarian, born at Fez, Morocco. At one time he held the position of rabbi at Oran, Algeria, but late in life he ...

(died 1622) * Abd al-Rahman al-Tamanarti (died 1650) * Abu Abdallah Mohammed al-Murabit al-Dila'i (died 1678) *

Mohammed ibn Nasir Sidi Mohammed ibn Nasir ( ar, مْحَمَّد بنَّاصر) or Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Ahmed ibn Mohammed ibn al-Hussayn ibn Nasir ibn Amr abu Bakr al-Drawi al-Aghlabi (1603–1674) was a Moroccan Sufi and founder of the Nasiriyya ''zawiyya'' ...

(1603–1674) * Mohammed al-Mahdi al-Fasi (1624–1698) * Mohammed al-Rudani (c. 1627–1683) *

Abu Salim al-Ayyashi Abu Salim 'Abd Allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abu Bakr al-'Ayyashi () (May 4, 1628December 13 or 18, 1679) was a well-known travel writer, poet, lawyer, and Sufi scholar from Morocco. Biography Abu Salim al-'Ayyashi was born on 4 May 1628 in the Berbe ...

(1628–1679) *

Abd al-Rahman al-Fasi Abu Zaid Abd al-Rahman Abu Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Fasi (; c. 1631–1685) was a Moroccan writer in the field of law, history, astronomy and music. He wrote some 170 books and has been called the Suyuti of his time. He was born in the promin ...

(1631–1685) *

Abu Ali al-Hassan al-Yusi Abu Ali al-Hassan ibn Masud al-Yusi () (1631–1691) was a Moroccan Sufi writer. He is considered to be the greatest Moroccan scholar of the seventeenth century and was a close associate of the first Alaouite sultan Rashid. Al-Yusi was born in a ...

(1631–1691) * Ahmed al-Hashtuki (1647–1715) *

Ahmed ibn Nasir Ahmed ibn Nasir al-Dar'i () (sometimes spelled Bennacer) (1647–1717) was a Moroccan Sufi writer and head of the zawiya of the Nasiriyya brotherhood at Tamegroute, son of its founder Mohammed ibn Nasir. He made six pilgrimages to Mecca and mad ...

(1647–1717) * Abd as-Salam al-Qadiri (1648–1698) * Abd al-Wahhab Adarrak (1666–1746) *

Mohammed Awzal Muhammad bin Ali al-Hawzali (, ; 1680–1749) is the most important author in the literary tradition of the Tachelhit language. He was born around 1680 in the village of al-Qaṣaba (Elqeṣba) in tribal territory of the Induzal, in the region of ...

(1670–1749) *

Mohammed al-Ifrani Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ifrani al-Susi al-Marrakushi () (1669/1670), called al-Saghir, was a Moroccan historian and biographer. Biography al-Ifrani was born in 1669/1670 in Marrakesh. His family was from the Ifran tribe, a Shilh ...

(1670–1745) * Ahmed ibn al-Mubarak al-Lamati (1679–1743) * Ali Misbah al-Zarwili (1685–1737) * Mohammed ibn al-Tayyib (1698–1756)

Sixteenth century

* Mohammed ibn Yajbash al-Tazi (died 1505, AH 920) *

Ali ibn Qasim al-Zaqqaq Ali ibn al-Qasim al-Zaqqaq (; died 1506/7), from Fes, Morocco is one of the most important authors in the field of Maliki common law. He is the author of the well-known ''Lamiyat al- Zaqqaq'' (the popular title of ''Lamia fi al-Ahkam''), a textb ...

(died 1506) * Abdallah al-Ghazwani (died 1529) *

Abderrahman El Majdoub Sidi Abderrahman el Majdoub ( ar, عبد الرحمان المجذوب , March 150626May 1568), also transcribed as Mejdub, full name al-Shaykh Abu Zayd Abderrahman al-Majdoub ibn Ayyad ibn Yaacub ibn Salama ibn Khashan al-Sanhaji al-Dukkali, was ...

(died 1569) * Mahammad ibn Isa al-Sanhadji (died c. 1578) *

Abu-l-Hasan al-Tamgruti Abu-l-Hasan Ali ibn Mohammed al-Tamgruti (; born in Tamegroute ca. 1560, died in 1594/5) was a Moroccan author, ambassador, fqih and one of the most important officials of the Saadian court during the reign of Ahmad al-Mansur. He was in charge of ...

(died 1594/5) * Ahmed al-Mandjur (1520–1587) *

Abu Abdallah ibn Askar Ibn Askar () or Abu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Ali ibn Omar ibn Husain ibn Misbah ibn Askar (1529–1579) was a Moroccan historian, author of ''Dawhat al-Nashir li-Mahasin man kana min al-Maghrib min Ahl al-Karn al-ashir'', a hagiographic dictionary, co ...

(1529–1578) * Abul Qasim ibn Mohammed al-Ghassani (1548–1610) *

Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali () (15491621), fully Abu Faris 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Sanhaji al-Fishtali was a Moroccan writer, head of the chancery (''wazīr ''al''-ḳalam ''al''-aʿlā''), official historiographer and official poet ...

(1549–1621) * Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi (1553–1616) *

Ahmed ibn Abi Mahalli Ahmed ibn Abi Mahalli (; 1560–1613), born in Sijilmasa, was a Moroccan Imam and the Sufi leader of a revolt (1610–13) against the reigning Saadi Sultan Zidan Abu Maali in the south of Morocco in which Ibn Abi Mahalli proclaimed himself mah ...

(1559–1613) * Abraham Azulai (c. 1570 – 1643) *

Mohammed al-Arbi al-Fasi Abu Abd Allah Hamid Mohammed ibn Yusuf al-Arbi al-Fasi () (1580–1642), born to the ''al-Fasi'' family in Fas in Morocco, is the author of several books among which ''Mir'at al-Mahâsin min akhbar al-shaykh Abi al-Mahasin'' (The Mirror of exem ...

(1580–1642) *

Abdelaziz al-Maghrawi Abu Faris abd al-Aziz al-Maghrawi (; d. 1605) was a Moroccan poet and the first known author of a qasida written in malhun. He was one of the poets of the court of the Saadian The Saadi Sultanate (also rendered in English as Sa'di, Sa'did, ...

(c. 1580 – 1600) * Abd al-Wahid ibn Ashir (1582–1631) *

Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maqqarī al-Tilmisānī (or al-Maḳḳarī) (), (1577-1632) was an Algerian scholar, biographer and historian who is best known for his , a compendium of the history of Al-Andalus which provided a basis for the scholar ...

(c. 1591 – 1632) *

Mahamad Mayyara Abu Abd Allah Mahamad ibn Ahmad Mayyara (; 1591–1662) was a jurist and theologian from Fes, one of the most reputable scholars of his time. He is the author of a commentary on the ''Tuhfa'' by Ibn Asim, a commentary on ''Al-Musrhid al mumin'' ...

(1591–1662) *

Abd al-Qadir al-Fasi Abd al-Qadir ibn Ali ibn Yusuf al-Fasi or Sidi Abdelkader el-Fassi (; c. 1599–1680) or, in full, Abu Mohammed, Abu Sa'ud Abd al-Qadir al-Fasi ibn Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Abu al-Mahasin Yusuf al-Qasri al-Fasi was the founder of the Shadhili zawiyya ...

(1599–1680) * Al-Masfiwi (16th century)

Fifteenth century

* Abdarrahman al-Makudi (died 1405) * Ali ibn Haydur at-Tadili (died 1413) * Ibrahim al-Tazi (died CE 1462/AH 866) * Muhammad al-Jazuli (died 1465) * Ibrahim ibn Hilal al-Sijilmasi (died c. 1498) *

Ibn Ghazi al-Miknasi Abu Abdallah Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Muhammad Ibn Ghazi al-'Utmani al-Miknasi () (1437–1513) was a Moroccan scholar in the field of history, Islamic law, Arabic philology and mathematics. He was born in Meknes from Banu Uthman, a clan in t ...

(1437–1513) *

Ahmad Zarruq Ahmad Zarruq () also known as Imam az-Zarrūq ash Shadhili (Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Īsa) (1442–1493 CE) was a 15th-century Moroccan Shadhili Sufi, jurist and saint from Fes. He is considered one of the most prominent and ac ...

(1442–1493) *

Leo Africanus Joannes Leo Africanus (born al-Hasan Muhammad al-Wazzan, ar, الحسن محمد الوزان ; c. 1494 – c. 1554) was an Andalusian diplomat and author who is best known for his 1526 book '' Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica'', later ...

(1488–1554)

Fourteenth century

* Abu Mohammed al-Qasim al-Sijilmasi (died 1304) *

Ibn Abi Zar Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī Zarʿ al-Fāsī ( ar, أبو الحسن علي بن أبي زرع الفاسي) (d. between 1310 and 1320) is the commonly presumed original author of the popular and influential medieval history of Morocco known as ...

(died c. 1315) * Abu al-Hassan Ali ibn Mohammed al-Zarwili (died 1319) *

Abd al-Haqq al-Badisi Abd al-Haqq ibn Ismail al-Badisi (; died after 1322) was a Moroccan biographer, author of ' (The exalted resolve and the subtle object of the naming of the venerable inhabitants of the Rif), a book about the life of 48 Sufi saints of the Rif Th ...

(died after 1322) * Ibn Shuayb (died 1349) * Ahmad ibn Ashir al-Ansari (died 1362) *

Ibn Idhari Abū al-ʽAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʽIḏārī al-Marrākushī ( ar, أبو العباس أحمد ابن عذاري المراكشي) was a Moroccan historian of the late-13th/early-14th century, and author of the famous ''Al-Bayan al-M ...

(beginning of the 14th century) *

Ibn Battuta Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battutah (, ; 24 February 13041368/1369),; fully: ; Arabic: commonly known as Ibn Battuta, was a Berber Maghrebi scholar and explorer who travelled extensively in the lands of Afro-Eurasia, largely in the Muslim ...

(1304–1377) * Mohammed al-Hazmiri (fl. 1320) *

Ibn Juzayy Abu al-Qasim, Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Muhammad b. 'Abd Allah, Ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi al-Gharnati () was an Andalusian Maliki-Ash'ari scholar and poet of Arab origin. Works He wrote many religious works such as his ''al-Qawanin al-Fiqhiyyah'' or "T ...

(1321–1357) * Abu Muqri Mohammed al-Battiwi (fl. 1331) *

Ibn Abbad al-Rundi Ibn Abbad al-Rundi () (in full, Abu 'abd Allah Muhammad Ibn Abi Ishaq Ibrahim An-nafzi Al-himyari Ar-rundi) (1333–1390) was one of the leading Sufi theologians of his time who was born in Ronda. Attracted to Morocco by the famous madrasahs, Ibn ...

(1333–1390) *

Abu Yahya ibn al-Sakkak Abu Yahya ibn al-Sakkak al-Miknasi () (full name: Abu Yahya or Abu Abd Allah Mohammed ibn Abu Ghalib ibn Ahmad ibn Mohammed ibn Abu-l-Hasan Ali ibn Mohammed ibn as-Sakkak al-Miknasi; d. 22 May 1415), was a Moroccan historian, genealogist, judge, M ...

(1335–1415) * Abd al-Rahman al-Jadiri (1375–1416) *

Ismail ibn al-Ahmar Abū l-Walīd Ismāʿīl ibn Yūsuf Ibn al-Aḥmar () (Granada? 1324/1326 – Fes 1404/1407) was an Andalusian historian of the fourteenth century, the time of the Marinid dynasty.

(1387–1406) *

Abu al-Hasan Ali al-Jaznai Abu al-Hassan Ali al-Jaznai () (who lived in the 14th century) was a Moroccan historian and author of ''Kitab Tarikh madinat Fas, al-maruf bi-Zahrat al-as fi bina madinat Fas'' or simply ''Zahrat al-As'' (''The Myrtle Flower''), an important sourc ...

(14th century)

Thirteenth century

Ibn al-Yasamin Abu Muhammad 'Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Hajjaj ibn al-Yasmin al-Adrini al-Fessi () (died 1204) more commonly known as ibn al-Yasmin, was a Berber mathematician, born in Morocco and he received his education in Fez and Sevilla. Little is known of ...

(died 1204) * Abu Musa al-Jazuli (died 1209) * Ahmad ibn Munim al-Abdari (died 1228) * Ibn al-Zayyat al-Tadili (died 1229/30) * Abd al-Rahman al-Fazazi (died 1230) * Ali ibn al-Qattan (died 1231) * Ibn al-Khabbaza (died 1239) * Abdelaziz al-Malzuzi (died 1298) * Salih ben Sharif al-Rundi (1204–1285) * Malik ibn al-Murahhal (1207–1289) * Abu al-Qasim Qasim ibn al-Shatt (1245–1323) * Ibn abd al-Malik al-Marrakushi (1237–1303) *

Mohammed ibn Hajj al-Abdari al-Fasi Moḥammed ibn al-Hajj al-Abdari al-Fasi (or Mohammed Ibn Mohammed ibn Mohammed Abu Abdallah Ibn al-Hajj al-Abdari al-Maliki al-Fassi; ar, إبن الحاج العبدري الفاسي) also known simply as Ibn al-Haj or Ibn al-Hajj was a Morocca ...

(c. 1256 – 1336) *

Ibn al-Banna al-Marrakushi Ibn al‐Bannāʾ al‐Marrākushī ( ar, ابن البناء المراكشي), full name: Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Azdi al-Marrakushi () (29 December 1256 – 31 July 1321), was a Moroccan polymath who was active as a math ...

(1256–1321) * Mohammed ibn Rushayd (1259–1321) * Abu al-Qasim al-Tujibi (1267/8–1329) * Mohammed ibn Adjurrum (1273–1323) * Abu al-Qasim al-Sharif al-Sabti (1297–1359 AH 697–760) * Abu Ali al-Hasan al-Marrakushi (fl. 1281/2) * Mohammed al-Abdari al-Hihi (fl. c. 1289) * Judah ben Nissim (13th century)

Twelfth century

Ibn Bajjah Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyà ibn aṣ-Ṣā’igh at-Tūjībī ibn Bājja ( ar, أبو بكر محمد بن يحيى بن الصائغ التجيبي بن باجة), best known by his Latinised name Avempace (; – 1138), was an A ...

(died 1138) * Abu Jafar ibn Atiyya (died 1158) * Ali ibn Harzihim (died 1163) *

Al-Suhayli Sidi Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah al-Suhayli () (1114 – 1185), was born in Al-Andalus, Fuengirola (formerly called Suhayl) and died in Marrakesh. He is one of the seven saints of that city. Al-Suhayli wrote books on grammar and I ...

(1114–1185) *

Zechariah Aghmati Zechariah ben Judah Aghmati ( he, זכריה אגמאתי), also spelled Agamati, was a Rabbi and Talmudist who lived from 1120 CE - 1195 CE in Morocco. Works R. Zechariah's major contribution was the ''Sefer Ha-Ner'', a supercommentary on the '' H ...

(1120–1195) * Abu al-Abbas as-Sabti (1129–1204) * Abu al-Abbas al-Jarawi (1133–1212) *

Abd as-Salam ibn Mashish ʻAbd al-Salām ibn Mashīsh al-ʻAlamī ( ar, عبد السلام بن مشيش العلمي) (b. ?–1227), was a Moroccan Sufi saint who lived during the reign of the Almohad Caliphate. Biography Virtually nothing is known about him except t ...

(1140–1227) *

Mohammed ibn Qasim al-Tamimi Al-Tamimi, in full Abu Abd Allah Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Karim al-Tamimi al-Fasi () (born 1140/5, died 1207/8) was a Moroccan Arab hadith scholar and biographer, author of ''Al-Mustafad fi manaqib al-ubbad bi-madinat Fas wa ma ...

(1140/5) * Ibn Dihya al-Kalby (1149–1235) *

Mohammed al-Baydhaq Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Ali al Sanhaji al-Baydhaq () (died after 1164) was a Moroccan historian mainly known as a companion of Ibn Tumart and chronicler of the Almohads. Al-Baydhaq (meaning pawn) was his nickname, because he was small in stature. H ...

(c. 1150) * Abu Mohammed Salih (1153–1234) *

Joseph ben Judah of Ceuta Joseph ben Judah ( he, יוסף בן יהודה ''Yosef ben Yehuda'') of Ceuta ( 1160–1226) was a Jewish physician and poet, and disciple of Moses Maimonides. Maimonides wrote his work, the ''Guide for the Perplexed'' for Joseph. Life For th ...

(c. 1160–1226) *

Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi () or in full Abu al-Abbas Ahmad abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Lakhmi al-Sabti (1162–1236) was a religious and legal scholar and member of the Banu al-Azafi who ruled Ceuta in the 13th century. Al-Azafi was an expert ...

(1162–1236) *

Abdelwahid al-Marrakushi ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿAlī al-Tamīmī al-Marrākushī (; born 7 July 1185 in Marrakech, died 1250) was a Moroccan historian who lived during the Almohad period. Abdelwahid was born in Marrakech in 1185 during the reign of Yaqub al-Mansur, in ...

(born 1185) *

Abu-l-Hassan ash-Shadhili Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili ( ar, أبو الحسن الشاذلي) (full name: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Ḥasanī wal-Ḥusaynī al-Shādhilī) also known as Sheikh al-Shadhili (593–656 AH) (1196–1258 AD ...

(1196–1258) * Abu Bakr al-Hassar (12th century)

Eleventh century

Abu Imran al-Fasi Abu Imran Musa ibn Isa ibn abi hajj (or hajjaj) al-Fasi () (also simply known as Abu Imran al-Fasi; born between 975 and 978, died 8 June 1039) was a Moroccan Maliki ''faqīh'' born at Fez to a Berber or Arab family whose '' nisba'' is impossible ...

(died 1038) *

Isaac Alfasi Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi ha-Cohen (1013–1103) ( ar, إسحاق الفاسي, he, ר' יצחק אלפסי) - also known as the Alfasi or by his Hebrew acronym Rif (Rabbi Isaac al-Fasi), was a Maghrebi Talmudist and posek (decider in matters of ...

(1013–1103) * Mohammed ibn Tumart (c. 1080 – 1130) * Qadi Ayyad ben Moussa (1083–1149) * Mohammed al-Idrisi (1099–1165)

Tenth century

Dunash ben Labrat Dunash ha-Levi ben Labrat (920/925 – after 985) ( he, ר׳ דוֹנָש הַלֵּוִי בֵּן לָבְּרָט; ar, دناش بن لبراط) was a medieval Jewish commentator, poet, and grammarian of the Golden age of Jewish culture in ...

(920–990) *

Judah ben David Hayyuj Judah ben David Hayyuj (Hebrew: ר׳ יְהוּדָה בֶּן דָּוִד חַיּוּג׳ Arabic: أبو زكريا يحيى بن داؤد حيوج Abu Zakariyya Yahya ibn Dawūd Hayyūj) was a Moroccan Jewish linguist. He is regarded as the fath ...

(945–1000) *

David ben Abraham al-Fasi David ben Abraham al-Fasi ( he, דוד בן אברהם אלפאסי) was a medieval Jewish, Moroccan lexicographer and grammarian from Fez, living in the second half of the 10th century (died before 1026 CE), who eventually settled in the Land o ...

(c. 950 – 1000)

Ninth century

Idriss II Idris bin Idris ( ar, إدريس بن إدريس) known as Idris II ( ar, إدريس الثاني) (August 791 – August 828), was the son of Idris I, the founder of the Idrisid dynasty in Morocco. He was born in Walīlī two months after the ...

(791–828)

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Abiola Irele Francis Abiola Irele (commonly Abiola Irele, 22 May 1936 – 2 July 2017) was a Nigerian academic best known as the doyen of Africanist literary scholars worldwide. He was Provost at Kwara State University, founded in 2009 in Ilorin, Nigeria. Befo ...

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References

External links

Literatura Marroqui Contemporanea (lexicon of author-biographies in Spanish)

Index of ''The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature'', ed Abiola Irele and Simon Gikandi, 2 vls, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Poetry International Web, ''Morocco''

Abdellatif Akbib, Abdelmalek Essaadi, ''Birth and Development of the Moroccan Short Story'' University, Morocco

* ttp://www.maghrebi-studies.org/newmaghrebistudies.nitle.org/index.php/maghrebi/content/pdf/139.pdf ''Maghreb Arts'', Some Key Figures of Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian literature
Bibliography of sources on Moroccan literature in all languages

In Spanish: ''Enciclopedia GER'', P. Martsnez Montávez, "Marruecos (magrib Al-agsá) VI. Lengua y Literatura."
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