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

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. His family was from the Ifran tribe, a

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tribe of the

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basin in the

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region. He began his studies in his hometown, where he followed the courses of the scholar, Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn 'Ali al-Mawasi as-Susi (d. 1718). Then he went to Fez to continue his studies in the

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, where he attended the lessons of scholars such as Ahmad ibn Abd el-Hayy al-Halabi and Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Fasi.

Works

Some of his works are: * ''Nuzhat al-hddi bi-akhbar muluk al-Qarn al-Hadi'', a chronicle of the Saadid sultans of Morocco * ''al-Maslak as-sahl fi sharh tawchih Ibn Sahl'', a commentary on ''Tawshih'' or ''Muwashshah'' of the Andalusian poet, Ibn Sahl * ''Safwat man intashar min akhbar sulaha' al-qarn al-addi 'ashar'', a compilation of biographies of 17th-century Moroccan saints * ''az-Zill al-warif fi mafakhir Mawlana Ismail ibn al-Sharif'' (or ''Rawdat at-tarif''), a monograph on the Alaouite sultan of Morocco, Moulay

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* ''Durar al-hijal fi ma'athir sab'at rijal'', a monograph on the

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* ''al-Mu'rib fi akhbar al-Maghrib'', a general history of Morocco until his time

References

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