List of Moroccan writers
Encyclopedia
This list is about writers from Morocco
. For writers from Andalusia see after Z.
In the alphabetical sorting of surnames initial al or el are mostly ignored.
, in the period 750–1496, writing in Arabic are generally referred to as Moorish writers. For a part (1085–1238) of that Moorish period, Andalusia
and Morocco
formed one state. After that (1238–1492) the Merinid dynasty of Morocco kept close ties with the Kingdom of Granada.
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
. For writers from Andalusia see after Z.
In the alphabetical sorting of surnames initial al or el are mostly ignored.
A
- Khadija Ait Ammi (1964- )
- Mohammed ibn Hajj al-Abdari al-Fasi (ca. 1256–1336)
- Mohammed al-Abdari al-HihiMohammed al-Abdari al-HihiAbu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Ali ibn Ahmed ibn Masoud ibn Hajj al-Abdari al-Hihi was a Moroccan travel writer. He was born in the Haha tribe or region in the south of Morocco. He is the author of The Moroccan Journey , an account of his journey to Mecca in 1289, originally entitled...
(ca. 1289) - Abdelkrim al-Khattabi (1882–1963)
- Abd al-Qadir al-FasiAbd al-Qadir al-FasiAbd al-Qadir ibn Ali ibn Yusuf al-Fasi was the founder of the Shadhili zawiyya of Ksar-el-Kebir. He is the author of a fahrasa. This genre, in which a scholar enumerates his shaykhs and the works he read with them, can be read as a scholarly curriculum vitae. He was a son of Abu l-Mahasin Yusuf...
(1599–1680) - Leila AbouzeidLeila AbouzeidLeila Abouzeid is a Moroccan author. She writes in Arabic rather than in French and is the first Moroccan woman writer of literature to be translated into English.- Works :...
(1950–) - Abu al-Abbas as-SabtiAbu al-Abbas as-SabtiSidi Bel Abbas or Sidi Ahmed abu al-Abbas al-Khazraji as-Sabti is the patron saint of Marrakesh. He is also one of the "Seven Saints" of the city...
(1129–1204) - Abu Imran al-FasiAbu Imran al-FasiAbu Imran Yaqub al-Fasi was a Moroccan, Maliki writer born in Fes to a Zenata Berber family.He is regarded a saint by later Sufi mystics. He played an important role in the history of the Almoravid dynasty. It was his teaching in Qayrawan that first stirred the Sanhaja. He wrote a commentary on...
(d. 1038) - Abu Muqri Mohammed al-BattiwiAbu Muqri Mohammed al-BattiwiAbu Muqri Mohammed ibn Ali al-Battiwi was a Moroccan astronomer who wrote a poem on the calendar, astronomy and the determination of the hours of prayer. It has been commented upon by o.a. Abd al-Rahman al-Jadiri and Al-Qalasadi .-References:...
(fl. 1331) - Mohammed Achaari (1951–)
- Said AchtoukSaid AchtoukSaid Achtouk was a Moroccan poet, musician and songwriter.He was born in the village of Izouran ’Idaou-Bouzia, in one of the renowned tribes of the Sous, the Achtouken.Achtouk died on September 7, 1989 in Rabat....
(−1989) - Abd al-Wahhab AdarrakAbd al-Wahhab AdarrakAbu Mohammed Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ahmad Adarrak was a well-known physician and poet from Fes, Morocco. He wrote a qasida in honour of the saints in Fas and works on medicine o.a. a commentary on the Nushat of al-Antaki, a work on small-pox and one on syphilis...
(1666–1746) - Leo AfricanusLeo AfricanusJoannes Leo Africanus, was a Moorish diplomat and author who is best known for his book Descrittione dell’Africa describing the geography of North Africa.-Biography:Most of what is known about his life is gathered from autobiographical...
(1488–1554) - Zechariah Aghmati (1120–1195)
- Issa Aït Belize
- Lotfi AkalayLotfi AkalayLotfi Akalay is a Moroccan writer and businessman. He is well-known because of his articles in Al Bayane, La Vie Économique, Charlie Hebdo and Jeune Afrique...
(1943–) - Mohammed AkensusMohammed AkensusMohammed Akensus or Abu Abdallah Mohammed ben Ahmad Akensus al-Marrakushi was a well known, Moroccan historian and a minister under moulay Sulaiman and moulay Abderrahmane. He wrote on the reign of moulay Mohammed ben Abdallah and is the author of Al-Djaish al-aramram , lith...
(1797–1877) - Mohammed Akoujan
- Mehdi Akhrif (1952–)
- Abd as-Salam al-AlamiAbd as-Salam al-AlamiAbd as-Salam ibn Mohammed ibn Ahmed al-Hasani al-Alami al-Fasi was a scientist from Fes. He was an expert in the field of astronomy, mathematics and medicine. Al-Alami was the author of several books in these fields and the designer of solar instruments.-External Links:*Clifford Edmund Bosworth,...
(1834–1895) - Mohammed ibn Mohammed AlamiMohammed ibn Mohammed AlamiMohammed ben Mohammed Alami was a Moroccan poet. He belongs to the generation of Moroccan poets who published their writings in magazines and newspapers. Much later, his work was published in collections of his poetry.-Bibliography:...
(1932–1993) - Mohammed ibn al-Tayyib al-AlamiMohammed ibn al-Tayyib al-AlamiMuhammad ibn Tayyib al-'Alami was a Moroccan music theorist and the author of The Companion of the Performer . His teacher was Bu 'Isami also a famous music theorist.-References:...
(−1722/3) - Idriss ibn al-Hassan al-AlamiIdriss ibn al-Hassan al-AlamiIdriss ibn al-Hassan al-Alami was a Moroccan poet and translator. He is also the author of several books on the Arab language. Among the books he translated into Arabic are La Peur by Guy de Maupassant and La solidarité par la Science by Eugène Diderot.-External links:*On the author *Arabic...
(1925–2007) - Kaddour El AlamyKaddour El AlamySidi Kaddour El Alami also transliterated as Qaddur al-Alami 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-Idrisi al-Alami al-Hamdani and he was known under the name Sayyidi Qaddur al-Alami...
(1742–1850) - Ahmad al-Tayyeb AldjAhmad al-Tayyeb AldjAhmed al-Tayyeb Aldj is a well known Moroccan writer of poetry and drama. He is considered one of the cornerstones of contemporary Moroccan theater. He received several prizes and decorations for his service to Moroccan Arabic language theater. In 1973, he was awarded the prize of Literature of...
(1928–) - Isaac AlfasiIsaac Alfasifor other Al-Fasi's see Al-Fasi disambiguationIsaac ben Jacob Alfasi ha-Cohen - also known as the Alfasi or by his Hebrew acronym Rif , was a Talmudist and posek...
(1013–1103) - Tewfik AllalTewfik AllalTewfik Allal was born on October 11, 1947, in Oujda in Morocco. He is a writer and a prominent political figure. He is the president of the association Manifeste des libertés. It took a clear stance on the Denmark cartoon issue, defending freedom of expression.-References:...
(1947–) - Idriss al-AmraouiIdriss al-AmraouiIdriss ibn Muhammad ibn al-Amraoui, son of the poet Mohammed ibn Idris al-Amrawi was a Moroccan emissary who, in the service of sultan Mohammed IV , visited Paris in 1860 and Spain in 1861. His arrival in France coincided with the death of Napoleon III. He wrote a rihla of that journey called...
(−1879) - Mohammed ibn Idris al-AmrawiMohammed ibn Idris al-AmrawiMohammed ibn Idris al-Amrawi , or, in full, Abu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Idris ibn Mohammed ibn Idris ibn Mohammed ibn Idris ibn al-Hajj Mohammed al-Azammuri al-Amrawi al-Fasi was a well known poet from Fes and the vizier of the sultan Abderrahmane. He was one of the most prominent literary figures...
(1794–1847) - Farid al-Ansari (1960–2009)
- Najib El Aoufi (1948–)
- Mohammed al-Arbi al-FasiMohammed al-Arbi al-FasiAbu Abd Allah Hamid Mohammed ibn Yusuf al-Arbi al-Fasi , from Fas in Morocco is the author of several books among which Mir'at al-Mahâsin min akhbar al-shaykh Abi al-Mahasin , written in 1636, is the best known. It is about his father Abu l-Mahasin Yusuf al-Fasi and the beginnings of his...
(1580–1642) - Robert AssarafRobert AssarafRobert Assaraf is a Moroccan Jewish historian and writer. He resides in Paris, France.-Career:In 1996 he established the Centre International de Recherche sur les Juifs du Maroc and co-founded l’Union mondiale du judaïsme marocain in 1999.He is also the president of Radio Shalom and...
(1936–) - Mohammed Awzal (1670–1749)
- Nabil AyouchNabil AyouchNabil Ayouch is a television and movie director, producer and writer of Moroccan origin.-Early life:He was born in Paris, although he spent a large part of his childhood in Sarcelles...
(1969–) - Abu Salim al-AyyashiAbu Salim al-AyyashiAbu Salim Abdallah Ibn Mohammed al-Ayyashi was a well-known travel writer, poet and scholar from Morocco. He was born in a small village in Tafilalt. His father was the head of a zawiyya. Al-Ayyashi lived and studied in Fez and joined the Sufi order of the Nasiriyya in Tamegroute...
(1628–1679) - Qadi Ayyad ben Moussa (1083–1149)
- Abu al-Abbas al-AzafiAbu al-Abbas al-AzafiAbu al-Abbas Ahmad al-Azafi 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 in the analysis of oral tradition . He wrote a biography of the Berber saint Sidi Abu Yaaza Yalnour ibn Maymun ibn Abdallah Dukkali Hazmiri...
(1162–1236) - Ali AzaykouAli AzaykouAli Sidqi Azaykou , also called Dda Ali, was a Moroccan Berber poet, historian, philosopher and critic.He was an active partisan for the rights of the Berbers in Morocco.»...
(1942–2004) - Abraham AzulaiAbraham AzulaiAbraham ben Mordecai Azulai was a Kabbalistic author and commentator born in Fes, Morocco. In 1599 he moved to Palestine and settled in Hebron....
(c. 1570–1643)
B
- Abd al-Haqq al-BadisiAbd al-Haqq al-Badisi‘’’Abd al-Haqq ibn Ismail al-Badisi’’’ was a Moroccan biographer, author of Al-Maqsad al-sharif wa-al-manza al-latif fi tarif bi sulaha al-rif , a book about the life of 48 saints of the Rif....
(d. after 1322) - Souad Bahéchar (1953–)
- Latifa BakaLatifa BakaLatifa Baka , is a Moroccan author of novels and short stories.Novel:*"De Depuis ce temps-là", Ministère de la culture, Rabat, 2005.Short stories:...
(1964–) - Ahmed Barakat (1960–1994)
- Laarbi BatmaLaarbi BatmaLaarbi Batman was a Moroccan musician and author, especially well known as the front man of the group Nass El Ghiwane...
(1948–1998) - Mohammed al-BaydhaqMohammed al-BaydhaqMohammed abu Bakr ibn Ali al Sanhaji al Baydhaq was a companion of Ibn Tumart and chronicler of the Almohads. Al Baydhaq was his nickname, because he was small in stature. He was a Berber from the Senhaja....
(c.1150) - Muriel BarberyMuriel BarberyMuriel Barbery is a French novelist and professor of philosophy.-Biography:Barbery studied at the Lycée Lakanal, entered the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud in 1990 and obtained her agrégation in philosophy in 1993...
(1969–) - Hafsa Bekri-Lamrani
- Abdeslam Benabdelali
- David ben Abraham al-FasiDavid ben Abraham al-FasiDavid ben Abraham al-Fasi was a Jewish, Moroccan writer from Fez, living in the second half of the 10th century. He is the author of Kitab Jami al-Alfaz , a Hebrew-Arabic Dictionary. It is the first dictionary of biblical Hebrew....
(10th century) - Khnata bent BakkarKhnata bent BakkarDowager Sultana Khnata bent Bakkar was de facto ruler of Morocco from 1727 to ca. 1754. Also known as Hinata binti Bakar al-Gul, she acted as First Minister and Secretary for her husband Ismail Ibn Sharif, who reigned from 1672 to 1729...
(−1754) - Mehdi Ben BarkaMehdi Ben BarkaMehdi Ben Barka was a Moroccan politician, head of the left-wing National Union of Popular Forces and secretary of the Tricontinental Conference...
(1920–1965) - Zoubeir Ben Bouchta
- Mohammed Ben BrahimMohammed Ben BrahimEl Houari Mohammed Ben Brahim Assarraj was a poet from Morocco. He is especially well-known as the poet of Marrakech of the first part of the 20th century...
(1897–1955) - Siham BenchekrounSiham BenchekrounSiham Benchekroun is a Moroccan novelist and poet.-Bibliography:*Oser vivre, roman, Casablanca: Eddif, 1999, 272 pages. Published in Arabic, Editions Empreintes, 2002, translation by Abdelhadi Idrissi, 288 pages....
- Ahmed BenchemsiAhmed BenchemsiAhmed Benchemsi is a Moroccan journalist.He is the founder and was the publisher and editor of TelQuel and Nishan magazines.- Education :Benchemsi attended high school in Casablanca. He spent his freshman years in Rabat’s Mohammed V University, before joining Paris 8 University, from which he...
- Rajae BenchemsiRajae BenchemsiRajae Benchemsi 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 Fracture du désir, a collection of articles published by Actes Sud in 1998. In 2006, she wrote 'Houda et Taqi'...
(1957–) - Esther BendahanEsther BendahanEsther Bendahan Cohen is a Moroccan-Spanish writer.Her Sephardic Moroccan family went to Madrid when she was a child, in this city she studied Psychology and French Literature...
(1964–) - Halima Ben Haddou (1954–)
- Judah ben David HayyujJudah ben David HayyujJudah ben David Hayyuj was a Jewish linguist. He is regarded as the father of scientific grammar of Hebrew language. He was born in Fez, Morocco, about 945...
(945-ca.1000) - Abdelmajid BenjellounAbdelmajid BenjellounFor the article on Abdelmajid Benjelloun the historian and poet born in Fez in 1944 see Abdelmajid Benjelloun, historian.Abdelmajid Benjelloun was a novelist, journalist and ambassador from Morocco. His auto-biographical novel Fi at-Tufula , published in 1957, was one of the very first Moroccan...
(1919–1981) - Abdelmajid Benjelloun (1944–)
- Tahar Ben JellounTahar Ben JellounTahar Ben Jelloun is a Moroccan poet and writer. The entirety of his work is written in French, although his first language is Arabic.-Life:...
(1944– ) - Dunash ben LabratDunash ben LabratDunash ha-Levi ben Labrat was a medieval Jewish commentator, poet, and grammarian of the Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain. He was, according to Moses ibn Ezra, born in Fes. In his youth he travelled to Bagdad to study with Saadia Gaon.Dunash is called the founder of Spanish Hebrew poetry...
(920–990) - Judah ben NissimJudah ben NissimJudah ben Nissim al-Malkah was a Moroccan, Jewish writer and philosopher living in the 13th century. His main work is Uns al-Gharīb...
(13th century) - Abdelouahid Bennani (1958–)
- Mohammed Suerte BennaniMohammed Suerte BennaniMohammed Suerte Bennani is a Moroccan author of a science-fiction novel, L'Arc, published in May 2008.-External...
(1961) - Mohammed BennisMohammed BennisMohammed Bennis is a Moroccan poet and one of the most important poets of the Modern Arabic Poetry. He was born in Fez, Morocco , in 1948 .He contributes energetically to the modern Arabic poetry and he enjoys since the seventies , a particular status in the Arab culture. Muhsin J...
(1948–) - Khnata BennounaKhnata BennounaKhnata Bennouna is a Moroccan author of novels and short stories. Khnata is regarded as a very political writer. Her books frequently deal with the Palestinian problem both from a political and humanitarian point of view...
(1940–) - Mohammed BenzakourMohammed BenzakourMohammed Benzakour 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, The Netherlands, where his father worked...
(1972–) - Abdelaziz Ben SediqBen Sediq AbdelazizSayyid Abdelaziz Ben Sediq was a moderate Muslim scholar from Morocco. He is from the Idrissite branch of Moroccan Sayyids that trace themselves back to Idris I, who led a Shiite revolt against the Abbasid dynasty.-Ben Sediq's father:Ben Sediq's father Sayyid Muhammad Sayyid Abdelaziz Ben Sediq...
(1920–1997) - Raphael BerdugoRaphael BerdugoRaphael Berdugo , is a son of Rabbi Mordecai Berdugo, was a dayan, a scholar, and one of the greatest rabbis of Morocco.Raphael was respected by his contemporaries, and his decisions continue to be a source of inspiration to Moroccan rabbis...
(1747–1821) - Salomon BerdugoSalomon BerdugoChief Rabbi Salomon Berdugo was a halakhic authority, poet and rabbi in Meknes, Morocco. He was the son of Rabbi Daniel Berdugo. In 1897 he was appointed rabbi of the community...
(1854–1906) - Mohammed BerradaMohammed BerradaMohammed Berrada , also transliterated Muhammad Baradah, is a Moroccan novelist, literary critic and translator writing in Arabic. He is considered one of Morocco's most important modern authors....
(1938–) - Hafsa BikriHafsa BikriHafsa Bikri is a poet born to an Iraqi mother and a Moroccan father. She is also politically active, by reading poems in English and French against the Iraq war, in which she attended "A poetry world day against the war" in Casablanca, Morocco dedicated to the Iraqi people.-References:...
- Mahi BinebineMahi BinebineMahi Binebine is a Moroccan painter and novelist born in Marrakech in 1959. Binebine has written six novels which have been translated into various languages....
(1959–) - Mohammed Ibrahim Bouallou (1934–)
- Ahmed Boukous (1946–)
- Ali BourequatAli BourequatAli Bourequat was a French citizen of Moroccan origins living in Rabat, Morocco. He is a writer and former forcibly disappeared. As a successful businessman, he came from a rich family of Turkish origin close to the court of king Hassan II....
- Hassan Bourkia (1956–)
- Ahmed BouzfourAhmed BouzfourAhmed Bouzfour 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 the University of Al Qaraouiyine in Fès, where he completed his high school studies and obtained a...
(1954–) - Al-Yazid al-Buzidi BujrafiAl-Buzidi al-BujrafiAl-Yazid al-Buzidi Bujrafi is a prominent Berber Sufi poet and shaykh of the Alawi-Darqawi order, a branch of the Shadhili order. He lives at his Zawiya in Zaghanghan, Nador.- Biography :...
(1925–)
C
- Mohamed ChafikMohamed ChafikMohamed Chafik is a Moroccan writer and specialist in Berber language and literature.-Career:He is the author of a Berber-Arabic dictionary ....
(1926–) - Nadia ChafikNadia ChafikNadia Chafik is a Morrocan novelist.Chafik lives in Morocco. She teaches French language and communication at the Faculty of Law at Mohammed V University of Rabat. She has published short stories and three novels...
(1962–) - Abdelkader Chaoui (1950–)
- Driss Ben Hamed CharhadiDriss Ben Hamed CharhadiDriss ben Hamed Charhadi is the pseudonym for Larbi Layachi, a Moroccan story-teller, some of whose stories have been translated by Paul Bowles from Moroccan Arabic to English. His Life Full of Holes was first tape-recorded and translated by Bowles over the course of several visits to his home by...
(1937–) - Abdelkader Chatt (1904–)
- Mohamed ChoukriMohamed ChoukriMohamed Choukri , born on July 15, 1935 and died on November 15, 2003, was a Moroccan author and novelist who is best known for his internationally acclaimed autobiography For Bread Alone , which was described by the American playwright Tennessee Williams as 'A true document of human desperation,...
(1935–2003) - Driss ChraïbiDriss ChraïbiDriss Chraïbi was a Moroccan author whose novels deal with colonialism, culture clashes, generational conflict and the treatment of women and are often semi-autobiographical....
(1926–2007)
D
- Mohammed DaoudMohammed DaoudMohammed Daoud was a Moroccan writer and historian and a major nationalist in the Spanish occupied Northern Morocco during its struggle for independence...
(1901–1984) - Zakya DaoudZakya DaoudZakya Daoud is a well-known Moroccan journalist. She was born in 1937 in Bernay in France. She became a Moroccan citizen in 1959....
(1937–) - Muhammad al-Arabi al-Darqawi (1760–1823)
- Mohammed al-Murabit al-Dila'i (−1678)
- Mohammed Ben Abdelaziz Debbarh (1928–2008)
- Farida DiouriFarida DiouriFarida Diouri was a Moroccan novelist.-Novels:*Vivre dans la dignité, ou mourir, 1993 *Dans tes yeux, la flamme infernale, Paris ; Montréal ; Torino [etc.] : l'Harmattan, 30, 11, 2000. The struggle of a powerless woman for recognition*L'Ange et la misère, Paris Harmattan - 18, 06, 2002...
(1953–) - Mohammed al-DuayfMohammed al-DuayfMohammed al-Duayf or Abu abd Allah Mohammad Al-murabit ben Abd as-Salam ben Ahmed ben Muhamad al-Duayyif al-Ribati was a Moroccan writer. He was born in Rabat in 1752 and is the author of Tarikh al Du'ayyif, an extremely important source on the life of Sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah...
(1752-)
F
- Abd al-Rahman al-FasiAbd al-Rahman al-FasiAbu Zaid Abd al-Rahman Abu Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Fasi 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...
(1631–1685) - Allal al-FassiAllal al-FassiMuhammad Allal al-Fassi , was a Moroccan politician, writer, poet and Islamic scholar.-Politics:He was born in Fes, Morocco, and founded the nationalist Istiqlal party which was a driving force in the Moroccan struggle for independence from French colonial rule...
(1910–1974) - David ben Abraham al-FasiDavid ben Abraham al-FasiDavid ben Abraham al-Fasi was a Jewish, Moroccan writer from Fez, living in the second half of the 10th century. He is the author of Kitab Jami al-Alfaz , a Hebrew-Arabic Dictionary. It is the first dictionary of biblical Hebrew....
(ca. 950–1000) - Malika al-FassiMalika al-FassiMalika al-Fassi was a Moroccan writer and nationalist. She was the only woman to sign the independence treaty of Morocco in 1944.At a very young age she wrote articles under the pseudonyme El Fatate, later after her marriage, under the pseudonyme de Bahitate El Hadira , and not El Hadara...
(1920–2007) - Abd al-Rahman al-FazaziAbd al-Rahman al-FazaziAbu Zayd Abd al-Rahman ibn Yakhlaftan ibn Ahmad al-Fazazi was a poet and mystic. He is especially well known for his Al-Wasail al-Mutaqabbala, a long poem in praise of the Prophet...
(−1230) - Halima FerhatHalima FerhatHalima Ferhat is a Moroccan historian, specialist in the Middle Ages of the Maghreb, member of the "comité scientifique des Rendez-vous de l'Histoire de Rabat" and professor at the Mohammed V University. She was also Director of the Institute of African Studies in Rabat.Books*Halima Ferhat is a...
- Abd al-Aziz al-FishtaliAbd al-Aziz al-FishtaliAbu Faris Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali was the secretary of state for correspondence and leading poet from Ahmad al-Mansur's court. He wrote 69 poems, numbering 1016 verses.The one surviving work from the pen of al-Fishtali, as the chief scribe of al-Mansur's state is: Manahil al-safa fi ma'athir...
(1549–1621) - Mohammed al-Habib al-FourkaniMohammed al-Habib al-FourkaniMohammed al-Habib al-Fourkani was a Moroccan writer, historian and politician who played an important role during the struggle for independence, during which he was exiled and imprisoned two times by the French...
(1922–2008)
G
- Mohammed Gannun (−1885)
- Abdelkrim GhallabAbdelkrim GhallabAbdelkrim Ghallab is a Moroccan political journalist, cultural commentator, and novelist. He is an important figure both in the literary and political field. He studied both at the University of Al-Karaouine in Fez and at the University of Cairo, where he took his M.A. in Arabic literature...
(1919–2006) - Abul Qasim ibn Mohammed al-GhassaniAbul Qasim ibn Mohammed al-GhassaniAbul Qasim ibn Mohammed ibn Ibrahim al-Wazir al-Ghassani al-Andalusi was a famous physician at the Saadian court. He studied medicine with his father. He lived in Marrakesh and Fez and was of Morisco descent...
(1548–1610) - Mohammed ibn abd al-Wahab al-GhassaniMohammed ibn abd al-Wahab al-GhassaniMohammed ibn Abd al-Wahhab al-Wazir al-Ghassani was an ambassador for the Moroccan Sultan Moulay Ismail. He is especially well-known because of the account of his journey to Spain in 1690-1691, entitled Rihlat al-Wazir fi Iftikak al-Asir...
(−1707) - Abdallah al-GhazwaniAbdallah al-GhazwaniAbu Mohammed Abdallah al-Ghazwani was a Sufi saint from Morocco in the tradition of al-Jazuli and ash-Shadhili. He was the successor of Abdelaziz al-Tebaa...
(−1529) - Ahmed al-GhazzalAhmed al-GhazzalAhmed al-Ghazzal or, in full, Abu l-Abbas Ahmed ibn Al-Mahdi al-Ghazzal al-Andalusi al-Malaki was the secretary of the Moroccan Sultan Mohammed ibn Abdallah...
(−1777) - Abdullah al-Ghumari (1910–1993)
- Soumya Naâmane GuessousSoumya Naâmane GuessousSoumya Naâmane Guessous is a Moroccan sociologist, Muslim feminist, champion of women's rights and author of the bookAu-delà de toute pudeur; La Sexualité feminine au Maroc, Casablanca: Eddif, 10th edition., 1997, 280 p., first published in 1990...
- Abdallah GuennounAbdallah GuennounAbdallah Guennoun was a famous, and influential Moroccan essayist. In 1927 and 1928, he wrote a three-volume book titled An Nubûgh Al Maghribi , where he assesses the excellence of Moroccan literature and philosophy.Guennoun taught at the universities of Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, and Amman.-On...
(1910–1989)
H
- Mohammed Aziz El-Hababi (1922–1993).
- Mouna Hachim (1967–)
- Ali HaddaniAli HaddaniAli Haddani was a Moroccan songwriter. Some of his songs include Yak a jarhi, Qitar Al Hayat, Kif idir a sidi, Bared ou skhoun and Ya dmouîi ya ghla ma âandi....
(1936–2007) - Mohammed al-Harradi
- Badia Hadj Nasser.
- Mohammed al-HaikMohammed al-HaikIbn Abdallah Mohammed ibn al-Hussein al-Haik was a Moroccan poet and author of a songbook comprising eleven nubas, that had been handed down for generations. The songbook, written in 1789, includes the musical notation of the songs and is the single most important source on the early tradition of...
(fl. 1790) - Allal El HajjamAllal El HajjamAllal El Hajjam is a poet and professor of Arabic language in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. Previously he taught at the School of Arts and Humanities in Meknès...
(1948–) - Judah ben David HayyujJudah ben David HayyujJudah ben David Hayyuj was a Jewish linguist. He is regarded as the father of scientific grammar of Hebrew language. He was born in Fez, Morocco, about 945...
(945–1000) - Mohammed El Haloui (1923–2004).
- Ahmed Harrak SrifiAhmed Harrak SrifiAhmed Harrak Srifi is a prominent Moroccan scholar from the tribe of Ahl Srif in the north of Morocco.-The family tree of Ahmed Harrak Srifi:...
(−1925) - Ali Barrada al-Fasi Harazim (−1856).
- Mohammed al-Harraq (1772–1845)
- Abu Bakr al-HassarAbu Bakr al-HassarAl-Hassar or Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abdallah ibn Ayyash al-Hassar was a mathematician from Morocco, living in the 12th century. He is the author of two books Kitab al-bayan wat-tadhkar , a manual of calculation and Kitab al-kamil fi sinaat al-adad , on the break-down of numbers...
(12th century) - David HassineDavid HassineRabbi David Hassine is one of the best known figures of Jewish liturgic poetry in Morocco and his piyyutim were spread around the Sephardic world....
(1722–1792) - Sulayman al-HawwatSulayman al-HawwatAbu al-Rabi Sulayman ibn 'Abd Allah al-Hawwat Shafshawani was a Moroccan historian, biographer and poet.-Bibliography:Works by Sulayman al-Hawwat:...
(1747–1816) - Mohammed ibn al-Hasan al-Hajwi (−1956).
- Mohammed al-HazmiriMohammed al-HazmiriAbu Abd Allah Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Abd Allah ibn Tijillat al-Hazmiri al-Marrakushi was a Moroccan writer of the 14th century, member of the zawiyya Hazmiriyya and author of Itimid al-aynayn wa-nushat an-nazir in fi manaqib al-ahawayn Abi Zayd wa-Abi Abd Allah al-Hazmiryyayn...
(fl. 1320) - Ben Salem HimmichBen Salem HimmichBen Salem Himmich is a novelist, poet and philosopher who teaches at the Mohammed V University, Rabat in Morocco....
(1947–) - Emmanuel HocquardEmmanuel HocquardEmmanuel Hocquard is a French poet who 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 American poets, 21+1: Poètes américains ď aujourďhui and 49+1...
(1940–) - Ali Squalli HoussainiAli Squalli HoussainiAli Squalli Houssaini was the author of the lyrics of the National anthem of Morocco, Hymne Chérifien, in 1970. He is also the author of numerous books. In 1992, he received the international prize of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia in children's literature.- References :...
(1932–)
I
- Ibn Abi ZarIbn Abi ZarAbū al-Hassan ‘Alī ibn Abī Zar‘ al-Fāsī is the commonly presumed original author of the popular and influential medieval history of Morocco known as Rawd al-Qirtas, said to have been written at the instigation of Marinid Sultan Abu Sa'id Uthman II...
(-ca.1315) - Mohammed ibn AdjurrumMohammed ibn AdjurrumMohammed ibn Adjurrum or Abu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Dawud ibn Adjurrum es-Sanhadji was a famous grammarian from Morocco whose synopsis of Arabic grammar Al-Muqadimma al-Adjurrumiya fi Mabadi Ilm al-Arabiya was published in twelve different European versions and editions...
(1273–1323) - Ismail ibn al-AhmarIsmail ibn al-AhmarAbu l-Walid Ismail Ibn al-Ahmar was a Moroccan historian of the fourteenth century, the time of the Marinid dynasty. He was a contemporary of Ibn Khaldoun.-Works:Books by Ibn al-Ahmar:...
(1387–1406) - Ahmad ibn Ajiba (1747–1809)
- Mohammed Ibn AmrMohammed Ibn AmrMohammed ibn Amr al-Ribati or Abu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Amr al-Ansari was a Moroccan poet from Rabat. He initially worked as a kadi in Rabat and, after 1809, as a teacher in Marrakesh. His works include a diwan, a fahrasa and a rihla which have only partially been preserved...
(−1827) - Abu Abdallah ibn AskarAbu Abdallah ibn AskarIbn Askar or Abu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Ali ibn Omar ibn Husain ibn Misbah ibn Askar 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, composed about the year 1575 which gives a comprehensive picture of the...
(1529–1578) - Abu Jafar ibn AtiyyaAbu Jafar ibn AtiyyaAbu Jafar ibn Atiyya was a writer and vizir serving four Almohad sultans. He produced a manual for writing official letters which continued to be adopted in both Al-Andalus and the Maghrib during the following centuries...
(−1158) - Abd Allah ibn Azzuz (−1789)
- Ibn BajjahIbn BajjahAbū-Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn al-Sāyigh , known as Ibn Bājjah , was an Andalusian polymath: an astronomer, logician, musician, philosopher, physician, physicist, psychologist, botanist, poet and scientist. He was known in the West by his Latinized name, Avempace...
(−1138) - Ibn al-Banna al-MarrakushiIbn al-BannaIbn al‐Bannāʾ al‐Marrākushī al-Azdi also known as Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Azdi. [29) December 1256 – c. 1321) was a Moroccan mathematician, astronomer, Islamic scholar, Sufi, and a one time astrologer....
(1256–1321) - Ibn BattutaIbn BattutaAbu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta , or simply Ibn Battuta, also known as Shams ad–Din , was a Muslim Moroccan Berber explorer, known for his extensive travels published in the Rihla...
(1304–1377) - Ibn Ghazi al-MiknasiIbn Ghazi al-MiknasiAbu Abdallah Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Muhammad Ibn Ghazi al-'Utmani al-Miknasi was a Moroccan scholar in the field of history, Islamic law, Arabic philology and mathematics. He was born in Meknes, but spent his life in Fez. Ibn Ghazi wrote a three-volume history of Meknes and a commentary to the...
(1437–1513) - Muhammad Ibn al-HabibMuhammad Ibn al-HabibSayyidi Muhammad ibn al-Habib ibn as-Siddiq al-Amghari al-Idrisi al-Hasani was an Islamic teacher, author, and shaykh of the Darqawa tariqa in Morocco.-Background:...
(1876–1972) - Hamdun ibn al-Hajj al-FasiHamdun ibn al-Hajj al-FasiHamdun ibn al Hajj or in full Abu al-Fayd Hamdun ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Hamdun ibn Abd al-Rahman Mohammed ibn al-Hajj al-Fasi al-Sulami al-Mirdasi was one of the most outstanding scholars of the reign of moulay Soulayman of Morocco. He was a committed Tijani Sufi but also an outspoken critic of...
(1760–1817) - Ahmad ibn Hamdun ibn al-HajjAhmad ibn Hamdun ibn al-HajjAhmad ibn Hamdun ibn al Hajj or Abu-l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Mohammed ibn Hamdun Ibn al-Hajj was a Moroccan physician and scholar who composed a history of the alaouite dynasty in 15 volumes by order of Moulay Hasan I...
(−1898) - Ali ibn Harzihim (−1163)
- Ali ibn Haydur at-Tadili (d. 1413)
- Ibn IdhariIbn IdhariAbū al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Idhāri al-Marrākushi who lived in the late 13th and the early 14th century, was the author of an important medieval text on the history of the Maghreb and Iberia written in 1312.Little is known about the life of this author, who was born in Al-Andalus and...
(beginning of the 14th century) - Ahmad ibn Idris al-FasiAhmad Ibn Idris al-FasiAhmad Ibn Idris al-Laraishi al-Yamlahi al-Alami al-Idrisi al-Hasani was a mystic and a theologian, active in Morocco, North Africa, and Yemen. He had opposed the Ulema and tried to preach a vigorous form of Islam that is close to ordinary people....
(1760–1837) - Ibn JuzayyIbn JuzayyAbū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ahmad Ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi was a scholar, writer of poetry, history, and law from Al-Andalus. He is also known as the writer who dictated the travels of Ibn Battuta...
(1321–1357) - Ibn al-KhabbazaIbn al-KhabbazaAbu l-Hassan ibn al-Khabbaza was a kadi, historian and poet active during the reign of the Almohad Sultan Abu al-Ala Idris al-Mamun in Seville, al-Andalus and Marrakesh, Morocco. When the last sultan of this dynasty left Iberia in 1228, Al-Khabazza joined him...
(−1239) - Mohammed al-Tayyib ibn Kiran (1758–1812)
- Abd as-Salam ibn Mashish (1140–1227)
- Ahmad ibn Munim al-AbdariAhmad ibn Munim al-AbdariAhmad ibn Ibrahim ibn Ali ibn Munim al-Abdari was a mathematician, originally from Andalusia who lived in Marrakesh where he was known as one of the best scholars in geometry and number theory. Only three of his many mathematical texts are known today; one on magic squares, one on geometry and one...
(−1228) - Malik ibn al-MurahhalMalik ibn al-MurahhalMalik ibn al-Murahhal or Abu l-Hakam/Abu l-Mayd Malik ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Ali ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Faray ibn Azraq ibb Saad/Munir ibn Salim ibn Faray al-Masmudi al-Malaqi al-Sabti is considered to be one of the greatest Moroccan poets...
(1207–1289) - Ahmed ibn NasirAhmed ibn NasirAhmed ibn Nasir was a Moroccan Sufi writer and teacher of the Nasiriyya zawiyya of Tamegroute. He made six pilgrimages to Mecca and made each of these pilgimages into a journey of several years. Sidi Ahmed ibn Nasir travelled to Ethiopia, Arabia, Egypt, Iraq and Persia...
(1647–1717) - Mohammed ibn NasirMohammed ibn NasirSidi Mohammed ibn Nasir or Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Ahmed ibn Mohammed ibn al-Hussayn ibn Nasir ibn Amr abu Bakr al-Drawi al-Aghlabi was a Moroccan Sufi and founder of the Nasiriyya zawiyya of Tamegroute. Sidi Muhammad bin Nasir was a theologian, scholar and physician, especially interested in...
(1603–1674) - Mohammed ibn Abd as-Salam ibn Nasir (−1824)
- Ahmad Ibn al-QadiAhmad Ibn al-QadiFor the Egyptian encyclopedist see Shihab al-Din abu 'l-Abbas Ahmad ben Ali ben Ahmad Abd Allah al-QalqashandiAbu l-Abbas Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn al-Qadi al-Miknasi was the leading writer from Ahmad al-Mansur's court next to Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali. He was also a renowned judge and mathematician.A...
(1553–1616) - Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn ZakurMohammed ibn Qasim ibn ZakurAbu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Zakur was a Moroccan poet, historian and travel writer from Fes. He was a pupil of the school of Abu Ali al-Hassan al-Yusi. He wrote poetry, history, biographies, travel accounts, and books on grammar, rhetoric, law and theology. One of his travel accounts is...
(−1708) - Ali ibn al-QattanAli ibn al-QattanAbu al-Hasan Ali ibn Mohammed ibn al-Qattan al-Fasi was an imam, a hadith scholar and one of the leading intellectuals of the time of the Almohad dynasty in Morocco. He was born in Cordoba, Spain and lived in Fez, Morocco...
(d. 1203-1) - Mohammed ibn RushaydMohammed ibn RushaydMohammed Ibn Rushayd or Muhibb al-Din Abu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Umar ibn Rushayd al-Fihri al-Sabti was a judge, writer and scholar of Hadith, born in Sabta, Morocco. He is especially famous as a traveller and author of a well-known rihla...
(1259–1321) - Abd al-Qadir ibn ShaqrunAbd al-Qadir ibn ShaqrunIbn Shakrun or Abu Mohammed Abd al-Kadir ibn al-Arabi al-Munabbahi al-Madaghri ibn Shakrun al-Miknasi was a Moroccan physician and poet and contemporary of Moulay Ismael...
(died after 1727/8) - Ibn ShuaybIbn ShuaybIbn Shuayb or Abu l-`Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Shuayb al-Kirjani was a Moroccan scholar in medicine, alchemy, botany, astronomy, mathematics, a renowned poet and chancellor of the Marinid sultan Abu al Hassan. He is the author of both prose and poetry.-References:*F. N...
(−1349) - Mohammed al-Tawdi ibn SudaMohammed al-Tawdi ibn SudaMohammed ibn al-Talib al-Tawudi ibn Suda 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 Maghrib"...
(1790–1794/5) - Mohammed ibn al-Tayyib al-AlamiMohammed ibn al-Tayyib al-AlamiMuhammad ibn Tayyib al-'Alami was a Moroccan music theorist and the author of The Companion of the Performer . His teacher was Bu 'Isami also a famous music theorist.-References:...
(−1722) - Mohammed ibn TumartIbn TumartAbu Abd Allah Muhammad Ibn Tumart was a Berber religious Muslim scholar, teacher and later a political leader from the Masmuda tribe federation. He founded the Berber Almohad dynasty. He is also known as El-Mahdi in reference to his prophesied redeeming...
(c.1080–1130) - Ibn al-WannanIbn al-WannanAbu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Mohammed Ibn al-Wannan was a Moroccan poet. His fame was especially based on his poem al-Shamaqmaqiyya which is a survey of traditional Arabic culture, in which he described the customs of the early Arabs....
(−1773) - Ibn al-YasaminIbn al-YasaminAbu Mohammed Abdallah ibn Mohammed ibn Hajjaj a-Adrini was a Moroccan mathematician of Berber origin. His place of birth is unknown, but he received his education in Sevilla, Spain....
(−1204) - Mohammed ibn Zakri al-FasiMohammed ibn Zakri al-FasiMohammed Abu Abdallah ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Zakri al-Fasi was a Moroccan writer of the 18th century. He is the author of commentaries on works of grammar, theology and mysticism, didactic poems and prose work. His biography was written by al-Ghassani al-Wazir .-References:...
(−1731) - Ibn ZaydanIbn ZaydanAbd al-Rahman ibn Zaydan was a Moroccan historian and literary author. He was a great-grandson of sultan Moulay Ismael and is considered one of the best sources on the history of his native city Meknes, but also on the Alaouite dynasty...
(1873–1946) - Mohammed al-Idrisi (1099–1165)
- Abdellatif Idrissi (1957–)
- Mohammed al-IfraniMohammed al-IfraniMohammed al-Ifrani was a Moroccan historian. He is noted as the author of Safwat man intashar, a compilation of biographies of 17th century Morrocan saints, as well as his 1724 history of the Saadi Dynasty.-External Links:...
(1670–1745)
J
- Mohammed Abed al-JabriMohammed Abed al-JabriMohammed Abed Al-Jabri was a contemporary Moroccan critic and professor of philosophy and Islamic thought in Mohammed V University in Rabat. He was also an expert in Arabic and Arabic literature. He is considered to have been one of the major intellectual figures in the contemporary Arab world. He...
(1936–2010) - Abd al-Rahman al-JadiriAbd al-Rahman al-JadiriAbu Zayd Abd al-Rahman Mohammed al-Jadiri was muwaqqit at the Qarawiyyin Mosque...
(1375–1416) - Abu al-Abbas al-JarawiAbu al-Abbas al-JarawiAbu al-Abbas Ahmad Ibn Abd as-Salam al-Jarawi was the official poet of the Almohad dynasty. He published his poems in a diwan. Ibn Idhari quotes 300 lines by Al-Jarawi in his Al-Bayan al-Mughrib.-Notes and References:...
(1133–1212) - Salim JaySalim JaySalim Jay is a Moroccan novelist, essayist and literary critic. He was born in Paris from a Moroccan father and a French mother. He has written about 20 books, numerous essays and more than thousand newspaper articles....
(1951–) - Abu al-Hasan Ali al-JaznaiAbu al-Hasan Ali al-JaznaiAbu al-Hassan Ali al-Jaznai 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 , an important source on the history of Fez and its inhabitants.-References:*Zahrat al-As, Abd al-Wahhab b. Mansur 2nd edn...
(14th century) - Abu Musa al-Jazuli (−1209)
- Muhammad al-JazuliMuhammad al-JazuliSidi Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli al-Simlali , often known as "Imam al-Jazuli", was a Moroccan Sufi leader of the Berber tribe of the Jazulah. He is especially famous for compiling the Dala'il al-Khayrat, an extremely popular Muslim prayer book...
(−1465) - Joseph ben Judah of CeutaJoseph ben Judah of CeutaJoseph ben Judah of Ceuta was a Jewish physician and poet, and disciple of Moses Maimonides.It is as an address to Joseph that Maimonides introduces his Guide for the Perplexed.- Life :...
(c. 1160–1226) - Abderrafi JouahriAbderrafi JouahriAbderrafi Jouahri is a well-known Morooccan columnist, songwriter and politician. As a journalist he is known as the author of Nafida , his weekly column on the back page of Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki, published under the title Leur Excellence.As poet he is known as the author of the songs he...
(1943–) - Abdelkarim Jouiti (1962–)
- Ahmed JoumariAhmed JoumariAhmed Joumari was a Moroccan writer and poet. He was one of the pioneers of modern Arabic poetry inMorocco.-External links:*Poetry International Web -Bibliography:...
(1939–1995)
K
- Maati KabbalMaati KabbalMaati Kabbal is a writer, essayist and specialist in Moroccan literature. He is a frequent contributor to French and Moroccan television programs and newspapers like Libération and Le Monde dipomatique.-References:...
- Ibn Dihya al-KalbyIbn Dihya al-KalbyIbn Dihya al-Kalby was a Moorish Islamic scholar and writer. In order to further his studies, he traveled from Al-Andalus to Marrakesh, Morocco, then to Egypt and Iraq...
(1149–1235) - Mohammed KaghatMohammed KaghatMohammed Kaghat is a Moroccan playwright, actor and stage director. He also directed several feature films and wrote several books on drama and theater in Morocco.-Playwright and director:...
(1942–2001) - Mohammed Khammar KanouniMohammed Khammar KanouniMohammed Khammar Kanouni or Guenouni was one of the three most important poets of Morocco in the 1960s. Together with Ahmed Mejjati and Mohamed Serghini he represented a generation of change. His poetry represents the transition between writers before and after Moroccan independence...
(1938–1991) - Mohammed ibn Jaafar al-Kattani (1858–1927)
- Mohammed Khaïr-EddineMohammed Khaïr-EddineMohammed Khair-Eddine was amongst the most famous Moroccan literary figures of the 20th century. Born in 1941 in Tafraoute, as a young writer he joined the circle of writers known as the Amitiés littéraires et artistiques in Casablanca. In 1964 Khair-Eddir founded the "Poésie Toute" movement. In...
(1941–1995) - Abdelkebir KhatibiAbdelkebir KhatibiAbdelkebir Khatibi was a Moroccan literary critic, novelist and playwright. Affected in his late twenties by the rebellious spirit of 1960s counterculture, he challenged in his writings the social and political norms upon which the countries of the Maghreb region were constructed.-Career:A native...
(1938–) - Rita El KhayatRita El KhayatGhita El Khayat, , is Moroccan psychiatrist, anthro-psychoanalyst, writer, and anthropologist....
(1944–) - Driss El KhouriDriss El KhouriDriss El Khouri is one of the most acclaimed Moroccan novelists. His books convey strongly the feel of everyday Moroccan life in coffee shops and other urban settings and show a firm commitment to representing the voices of marginalised members of society....
- Abdelfattah KilitoAbdelfattah KilitoAbdelfattah Kilito is a well known Moroccan writer. He was born in Rabat in 1945. He is the author of several books in Arabic and in French. He has also written articles for magazines like Poétique and Studia Islamica...
(1945–) - Driss KsikesDriss KsikesDriss Ksikes is a Moroccan journalist. He was a former 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 darijophone Nichane magazine...
L
- Abdellatif LaabiAbdellatif LaabiAbdellatif Laâbi is a Moroccan poet, born in 1942 in Fes, Morocco.Laâbi, then teaching French, founded with other poets the artistic journal Souffles, an important literary review in 1966...
(1942–) - Dunash ben LabratDunash ben LabratDunash ha-Levi ben Labrat was a medieval Jewish commentator, poet, and grammarian of the Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain. He was, according to Moses ibn Ezra, born in Fes. In his youth he travelled to Bagdad to study with Saadia Gaon.Dunash is called the founder of Spanish Hebrew poetry...
(920–990) - Mohammed Aziz LahbabiMohammed Aziz LahbabiMohammed Aziz Lahbabi was a Moroccan philosopher, novelist and poet writing in Arabic and French. Some of his books were translated into more than 30 languages. Lahbabi studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and received a doctorate of philosophy...
(1922–1993) - Leila Lahlou
- Laila LalamiLaila LalamiLaila Lalami is a Moroccan American novelist and essayist.Lalami was born and raised in Rabat, Morocco, where she earned her B.A. in English from Université Mohammed V. In 1991, she received a British Council fellowship to study in England, and she went on to complete a M.A. in Linguistics at...
(1968–) - Ahmed ibn al-Mubarak al-Lamati (1679–1743)
- Wafaa LamraniWafaa LamraniWafaa Lamrani is a Moroccan poet. She was featured with two poems, The Wail of Heights and I am Consecrated to the Coming One in The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology , and she was one of the five women poets featured in La carte poétique du Maroc.-Sources:*Laabi, Abdellatif , La...
(1960–) - Abdallah LarouiAbdallah LarouiAbdallah Laroui is a Moroccan historian and novelist writing in Arabic and French. He is considered one of Morocco's leading intellectuals....
(1933–) - Fouad LarouiFouad LarouiFouad Laroui is a Moroccan economist and writer, born in Oujda, Morocco. After his studies in the Lycée Lyautey , he joined the prestigious École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, where he studied engineering...
(1958–) - Mohammed LeftahMohammed LeftahMohamed Leftah was a Moroccan novelist and literary critic writing in French. He wrote ten novels and worked for Matin du Sahara and Temps du Maroc.-External links:...
(1946–2008) - Ahmed LemsihAhmed LemsihAhmed Lemsih is a Moroccan poet. He writes his poems in Moroccan Arabic. Lemsih writes for the journal Al-Ittih'ad al-Ishtiraki and teaches at a high school in Rabat....
(1950–) - Ali LmrabetAli LmrabetAli Lmrabet is a Moroccan journalist and a member of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights.He came from a modest Berber family, was born in a small village called Adouz near Al-Hoceima in north Morocco. He was schooled at the International Israelite Alliance which sponsored people from...
(1959–)
M
- Ahmed al-MadiniAhmed al-MadiniAhmed al-Madini is a well known scholar, a novelist, a poet, and a translator from Morocco. He was born near Casablanca in 1947. Al-Madini studied in Paris and was awarded a doctoral degree from the Sorbonne. He has published eight short story collections, eight novels, two poetry collections, and...
(1949–) - Hasan ibn Rahlal al-Madani (−1728)
- Abdelaziz al-MaghrawiAbdelaziz al-MaghrawiAbu Faris abd al-Aziz al-Maghrawi 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 sultan Ahmad al-Mansur . He is still well known in Morocco...
(ca. 1580–1600) - Ahmed ibn Abi MahalliAhmed ibn Abi MahalliAhmed ibn Abi Mahalli , born in Sijilmasa, was an imam and the leader of a revolution against the reigning Saadi dynasty in the south of Morocco in which he proclaimed himself as mahdi. He is the author of six books, among which are l'Islit al-khirrit , Al Salsabil and Miharas.-References:...
(1559–1613) - Mohammed al-Mahdi al-FasiMohammed al-Mahdi al-FasiMohammed al-Mahdi al-Fasi also known as Abu Isa Abu Abdallah Mohammed al-Mahdi ibn Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Yusuf al-Fihri al-Fasi was a well-known mystic, biographer and historian from Fes. He was born in Ksar al-Kebir on May 17, 1624 and died 20 February 1698...
(1624–1698) - Abderrahman El MajdoubAbderrahman El MajdoubSidi Abderrahman el Majdoub , also transcribed as Mejdub, full name Abou Mohamed Ben Ayad Ben Yacoub ben Salama Ben Khachachan Es Senhaji El Faradji Ed Doukkali el Majdoub , was a Moroccan poet. Many lines of his poems are known throughout the Maghreb, and his work is the source of many proverbs...
(−1569) - Abdarrahman al-MakudiAbdarrahman al-MakudiAbu Zaid Abd-Arrahman Ibn Ali Salih al-Makudi was a grammarian from Morocco. His Sharh al Makudi, is a commentary to the Grammar Alfiyya of Ibn Malik, with the glosses of Almellewi printed in the margin. His commentary is of great value for the study of grammar.-References:...
(−1405) - Edmond Amran El MalehEdmond Amran El MalehEdmond Amran El Maleh was one of the best known Moroccan writers.-Biography:El Maleh was born in Safi, Morocco to a Jewish family from Safi. He moved to Paris in 1965, working there as a journalist and a teacher of philosophy.He only began writing in 1980, at the age of 63, traveling back and...
(1917–2010) - Abdelaziz al-MalzuziAbdelaziz al-MalzuziAbu Faris Abdelaziz ibn Abdarrahman al-Malzuzi al-Miknasi is considered to be the greatest poet of the Marinid period. He is also well-known as an historian. There is little known about his life, besides that he was the court poet of Abu Yahya ibn Abd al-Haqq. Among his many poetical works is a...
(−1298) - Ahmed al-Mandjur (1520–1587)
- Zahra Mansouri
- Khadija Marouazi (1961–)
- Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari (c. 1591–1632)
- Ibn al-Banna al-Marrakushi (1256–1321)
- Abu Ali al-Hasan al-MarrakushiAbu Ali al-Hasan al-MarrakushiAbu Ali al-Hassan al-Marrakushi was a Moroccan astronomer and mathematician. He was especially important in the field of trigonometry. He described more than 240 stars. He is the author of a very large compendium on spherical astronomy and astronomical instruments entitled ami’ al-mabadi'...
(fl. 1281/2) - Abdelwahid al-Marrakushi (born 1185)
- Al-'Abbas ibn Ibrahim al-Marrakushi
- Al-MasfiwiAl-MasfiwiAl-Masfiwi was a poet in the time of Ahmad al-Mansur. The surviving poetry of al-Masfiwi can be found in Manahil al-Safa, as well as in Kitab al-Istiqsa li-akhbar duwal al-Maghrib al-Aqsa by the nineteenth-century Moroccan historian, Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri al-Salawi. The section...
- Mahamad MayyaraMahamad MayyaraAbu Abd Allah Mahamad ibn Ahmad Mayyara 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 by his teacher Ibn Ashir and Sharh al-Shaykh Mayyara li-Lamiyya al-Zaqqaq,...
(1591–1662) - Thami MdaghriThami MdaghriThami Lamdaghri or Mdaghri is a well known Moroccan writer and composer of malhun songs. He is known for songs like Al-Gnawi and Aliq Al-Masrūh. More recently, in 2007, Nass El Ghiwane recorded a song by Lamdaghri called Ennehla Chama, which is about a conversation between a sultan and the queen...
(−1856) - Ahmed MejjatiAhmed MejjatiAhmed Mejjati was an influential Moroccan avant-garde poet.-Biography:Mejjati studied in Damascus and completed his PhD in Arabic literature at the Mohammed V University in Rabat, where he also worked as a professor of Arabic literature.He won the Ibn Zaydoun Award for poetry in Madrid in 1985,...
(1936–1995) - Driss El Meliani
- Saida Menebhi (1952–1977)
- Fatima Mernissi (1940–)
- Abderrahmane El Moudden
- Khireddine Mourad (1950–)
- Mohammed El-Moustaoui (1943–)
- Mohamed MrabetMohamed MrabetMohammed Mrabet is a Moroccan author artist and storyteller of Berber heritage from the Ait Ouriaghel tribe in the Rif region. Mrabet is mostly known in the West through his association with Paul Bowles, William Burroughs and Tennessee Williams...
(1936–) - Abd Allah al-Muwaqqit al-Marrakushi (1894–1949),
N
- Mririda n’Ait AttikMririda n’Ait AttikMririda n’Ait Attik was a Berber Moroccan poetess writing in Tashelhit. She was born in Megdaz in the Tassaout valley. Her poems were put to paper and translated into French in the 1930s by René Euloge...
(c.1900–c.1930) - Ahmad ibn Khalid al-NasiriAhmad ibn Khalid al-NasiriAbu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri al-Salawi, was born in Salé 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 Nasiriyya Sufi order in the 17th century. He wrote an important multivolume...
(1835–1897) - Mohammed al-Makki al-NasiriMohammed al-Makki al-NasiriMohammed al-Makki al-Nasiri was a religious scholar and nationalist politician from Morocco, active in the 1930's and 1940's. He was a member of the "Comité d'action marocaine" in 1934 and the founder of the "Hizb al-Wahda al-Magribiyya" in 1937...
(1906–1994) - Badia Hadj Nasser
- Mohamed Nedali (1962–)
- Mostafa NissabouryMostafa NissabouryMostafa Nissaboury is a Moroccan poet.Nissaboury was one of the co-founders of the magazine Anfas/Souffles , an avant-garde bilingual quarterly that published essays, poetry, and fiction...
(1943–)
Q
- Abd as-Salam al-QadiriAbd as-Salam al-QadiriAbu Mohammed Abd as-Salam al-Qadiri was a historian and genealogist of the Sharifian families of Morocco. He was the grandfather and precursor of the historian Mohammed al-Qadiri . He wrote a book about Ahmad ibn Abdullah al-Ma'n al-Andalusi, entitled Al-Maksad al-ahmad fi l-tarif bi-Sayyidina Ibn...
(1648–1698) - Mohammed al-Qadiri (1712–1773)
- Bachir QamariBachir QamariBashir Qamari is a well known Moroccan literary critic, novelist and playwright.He was born in Nador in 1951. He studied Arabic literature in Rabat . He was professor at the faculty of literature in Kenitra and teaches contemporary literature at the University of Rabat.-Bibliography:* QAMARI,...
(1951–)
R
- Mubarak Rabi (1938–)
- Mohamed Said RaihaniMohamed Said RaihaniMohamed Saïd Raïhani is a Moroccan translator, novelist and short-story writer born on December 23, 1968 in Ksar el Kebir, north of Morocco...
(1968–) - Fouzia RhissassiFouzia RhissassiFouzia Rhissassi is professor of social science and faculty of arts at the Ibn Tofail University in Kenitra, Morocco and currently holds a position on the UNESCO Chair on Women Rights.With her work in women’s studies and peace for/in the Arab world, Prof...
- Mohammed al-RudaniMohammed al-RudaniMohammed al-Rudani was an astronomer born in Taroudant, Morocco....
(ca. 1627–1683) - Mohammed al-Ruhuni (1746–1815)
- Ibn Abbad al-RundiIbn Abbad al-RundiIbn Abbad al-Rundi was one of the leading Sufi theologians of his time who was born in Ronda. Attracted to Morocco by the famous madrasahs, Ibn Abbad emigrated there at an early age...
(1333–1390) - Salih ben Sharif al-RundiSalih ben Sharif al-RundiAbu Muhammad Salih b. Abi Sharif al-Rundi was a poet from al-Andalus. He was born in Sevilla in 1204 and fled that town in 1248 and lived in Ceuta until his death in 1285. al-Rundi wrote a handbook on poetry...
(1204–1285)
S
- Mohammed Sabbag (1930–)
- Mohammed SabilaMohammed SabilaMohammed Sabila is a Moroccan writer and philosopher, born in Casablanca. He is the author of several articles and books on politics and culture....
- Abdeldjabbar Sahimi (1938–)
- Abdelhadi SaidAbdelhadi SaidAbdelhadi Said is a Moroccan poet.His first collection of poems has received the "prix de poésie de l'Union des Écrivains du Maroc" when he was 22 years old...
(1974) - Ahmed al-SalawiAhmed al-SalawiFor Al-Salawi, the author of al-Istiqsa see Ahmad ibn Khalid al-NasiriAhmad ibn Mohammed ibn Nasir al-Salawi was a Maliki scholar, Sufi teacher and writer, who played an important role in Sudan during the reign of the colonial Turkish-Egyptian administration...
(1791–1840) - Abu Mohammed Salih (1153–1234)
- Amale Samie (1954)
- Thouria SaqqatThouria SaqqatThouria Saqqat was a Moroccan writer of children's books. She worked as a teacher in Casablanca.-Books:*Al-Labu´a al-bayd:â´ al-Nasr al-ramâdî H:iwâr ma'a al-amwâdj y Fât:ima al-mafdjű'a, Casablanca: Manshűrât Dâr al-At:fâl, 1988 *Manâdîl wa-qud:bân...
(1935–1992) - Tayeb SeddikiTayeb SeddikiTayeb Seddiki is a Moroccan playwright, writing in both Arabic and French. He was born in Essaouira in 1938. He grew up in Casablanca in a neighborhood between el Habous and l'Hermitage. At the age of 17 he decided to go to France to study architecture. When he followed a course on stage design...
(1938) - Ahmed SefriouiAhmed SefriouiAhmed Sefrioui was a Moroccan novelist and pioneer of Moroccan literature in the French language. He was born in Fes in 1915 of Berber parents....
(1915–2004) - Mohamed SerghiniMohamed SerghiniMohamed Serghini is a famous Moroccan poet. Serghini is the author of several poetry collections, a novel and numerous translations. In 2004 he was awarded the Prix International de Poésie Argana.Mohamed Serghini was born in Fes in 1930...
(1930) - Abdelhak Serhane (1950-)
- Abu-l-Hassan ash-ShadhiliAbu-l-Hassan ash-Shadhili-Biography:He was born in a royal family of a business man in Berber Ghomara, near Ceuta in the north of Morocco in 1196. He studied in Fes. He set out across North Africa and into the Levant in the hope of finding the great living saint of his time . He started his journey in search of wisdom via...
(1196–1258) - Mohamed SibariMohamed SibariMohamed Sibari is a Moroccan poet, novelist and translator He was born in Ksar El-Kebir in 1945. He has written books in both Arabic and Spanish....
(1945–) - Abu Mohammed al-Qasim al-Siljilmasi (−1304)
- Mohammed ibn Abu al-Qasim al-SijilmasiMohammed ibn Abu al-Qasim al-SijilmasiAbu Abd Allah Mohammed ibn Abi al-Qasim al-Sijilmasi was a Moroccan Maliki scholar. He is especially well known for his Sharh al-amal al-mutlaq: al-musammá bi-Fath al-jalīl al-samad fī sharh al-takmīl wa-al-mutamad. It was finished in 1782...
(−1800) - Ahmed ibn al-Mubarak al-Lamti al-SijilmasiAhmed ibn al-Mubarak al-Lamti al-SijilmasiAhmed ibn al-Mubarak al-Lamati al-Sijilmasi was the author of Kitab Ad-Dahab al-ibriz min kalam sayyidi Abdellaziz. It was written in 1717. This work, commonly known as the Ibriz, is the main source for the teachings of the Moroccan sufi Abd al Aziz al-Dabbagh . Al-Dabbagh was an important figure...
(−1741) - Ibrahim ibn Hilal al-SijilmasiIbrahim ibn Hilal al-SijilmasiFor the author of "Amal al-Mutlaq", see Mohammed al-Qasim al-Sijilmasi.Abu Ishak Ibrahim ibn Hilal al-Sijilmasi was a Moroccan legal scholar well known for his verdicts . He is the author of al-Durr al-nathīr alá Ajwibat Abī al-Hasan al-Saghīr, Hādhihi ajwibat al-Imām ibn Hilāl and a commentary...
(- 1497/98) - Hourya SinaceurHourya SinaceurHourya Sinaceur is a well-known Moroccan philosopher, born in Casablanca. She is a specialist in the theory and history of mathematics and logic. Particularly well known is her book Field and Models. Sinaceur worked for Paris-Sorbonne University, the CNRS, also in Paris, and the URS in Rabat...
- Mohammed Allal Sinaceur (1941–)
- Ali SiqliAli SiqliAli Siqli is a Moroccan writer of children's books and drama. In 1982 he received the Great Prize of Morocco and the international King Faysal award.-Bibliography:...
(1932–) - Faouzi Skali (1953–)
- Ahmed Skirej (−1940)
- Mohammed al-Mokhtar SoussiMohammed al-Mokhtar SoussiMohammed al-Mokhtar Soussi was a Moroccan scholar, politician and writer who played an important role in the years before Morocco's independence in 1956. Born in the vilage of Illigh , he was a soufi and an expert on the history of the Sous region and the founder of a school in Marrakesh...
(1900–1963) - Al-SuhayliAl-SuhayliSidi Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Rahman b. Abd Allah al-Suhayli , was born in Al-Andalus, Fuengirola and died in Marrakesh. He is one of the seven saints of that city. Al-Suhayli wrote books on grammar and Islamic law. He is especially well known as an Islamic scholar by his commentary on the sira of Ibn...
(1114–1185) - Suleiman al-Alawi (1760–1822)
T
- Abdelkarim TabbalAbdelkarim TabbalAbdelkarim Tabbal is a poet. Tabbal first published his poems in 1952 in the magazine Al-Anis. His poems are distinguishable for their use of rhyme and metaphor, giving a musical character to the poetry.-Bibliography:...
(1931–) - Yusuf al-TadiliYusuf al-TadiliAbu Yaqub Yusuf Ibn Yahya ibn al-Zayyat al-Tadili was a sufi mystic, influential jurist and hagiographer from Morocco. He is the biographer of many sufi saints. His best known publication is the at-Tashawwuf ila rijal at-tasawwuf , ed. Ahmed Tawfiq...
(d. 1229/1230) - Mohammed al-Tahir al-Fasi (1830–1868)
- Abdellah TaïaAbdellah TaïaAbdellah Taïa is an openly gay Moroccan writer who has lived in self-imposed exile in Paris since 1998. Taïa writes in French and has had works translated into Basque, Dutch, English and Spanish....
(1973–) - Hemmou TalbHemmou TalbSidi Hemmou Talb was a Moroccan poet from the 18th century writing in Berber . Hemmou Talb was born in Awluz, and died in les Iskrouzen where his tomb has become the centre of pilgrimage. His nickname was bab n umargh, master of poetry. Tradition attributes a great number of poems to him that are...
(18th century) - Abd al-Rahman al-Tamanarti (d. 1650)
- Mohammed ibn Qasim al-TamimiMohammed ibn Qasim al-TamimiAl-Tamimi, in full Abu Abd Allah Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Karim al-Tamimi al-Fasi, was a Moroccan hadith scholar and biographer, author of Al-Mustafad fi manaqib al-ubbad bi-madinat Fas wa ma yaliha min al-bilad. This book comprises 81 biographies of Moroccan saints...
(1140/5) - Boutaina Tawil
- Abdelhadi TaziAbdelhadi TaziAbdelhadi Tazi is a scholar, writer, historian and former Moroccan ambassador in various countries.Tazi was born in Fes, Morocco, and attended primary and secondary studies in his hometown...
(1921–) - Mohammed Azeddine Tazi (1948)
- Abdelkhalek TorresAbdelkhalek TorresAbdelkhalek Torres was a Moroccan journalist and nationalist leader based in Tetouan, Morocco during the Spanish protectorate of Morocco era....
(1910–1970) - Houcine ToulaliHoucine ToulaliHoucine Toulali was Moroccan writer and singer of malhun compositions. He wrote hundreds of qasidas.He was born in Meknes in the Toulal neighbourhood...
(1924–1998) - Ahmed ToufiqAhmed ToufiqAhmed Toufiq is a well-known writer and scholar from Morocco. He was born in 1943 in the High Atlas near the city of Marrakech.He presented his PhD in 1979 on the subject of social history in the Moroccan rural areas in the 19th century and worked as a professor of history in the Faculty of Letters...
(1943–) - Bahaa TrabelsiBahaa TrabelsiBahaa Trabelsi 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 she returned to Morocco for some time. She now holds a Doctorate degree in economic studies from the University of Aix en Provence...
(1968)
Y
- Said Yaktine (1955–)
- Nadia YassineNadia YassineNadia Yassine is the head of the feminine branch of the Moroccan Islamist movement Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane...
(1958–) - Abu Ali al-Hassan al-YusiAbu Ali al-Hassan al-YusiAbu Ali al-Hassan ibn Masud al-Yusi 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 Berber tribe, the Ait Yusi, in the Middle Atlas mountains. He was...
(1631–1691)
Z
- Haim ZafraniHaim ZafraniHaim Zafrani was a Moroccan scholar and writer.Zafrani is particularly noted for having collected and preserved much or the music and oral poetry of the Jews of Morocco...
(1922–2004) - Mohamed ZafzafMohamed ZafzafMohamed Zafzaf was one of the best known Moroccan novelists and poets writing in Arabic.-Biography:Zafzaf lived in Casablanca where he wrote his stories and articles and translated books from Spanish and French...
(1942–2001) - Ali ibn Qasim al-ZaqqaqAli ibn Qasim al-ZaqqaqFor the poet from Al-Andalus see Ibn al-Zaqqaq.Ali ibn al-Qasim al-Zaqqaq , 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 , a textbook on judicial procedures...
(−1506) - Ahmad ZarruqAhmad ZarruqAhmed Zarruq was a Shadhili Sufi Sheikh and founder of the Zarruqiyye branch of the Shadhili Sufi order...
(1442–1493) - Ali Misbah al-Zarwili (1685–1737)
- Abu al-Qasim al-ZayyaniAbu al-Qasim al-ZayyaniAbu al-Qasim al-Zayyani or ,in full, Abu al-Qasim ibn Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Ibrahim al-Zayani was a Berber historian, geographer, poet and statesman from Morocco . He undertook diplomatic missions to the Ottoman court and engineered government attempts to bring tribes under central authority...
(1734/35–1833) - Mohammed ZniberMohammed ZniberDr. Mohammed Zniber was a Moroccan writer and historian. He also played an important role in the period of struggle for Morocco's struggle for independence from the French. He was a son of Moufti Boubker Zniber, the initiator of the petition against the Berber Dahir of the colonial French rule...
(1923–1993) - Abdallah ZrikaAbdallah ZrikaAbdallah Zrika is one of the most famous poets of Morocco. His poetry is free, based on spoken language and unrivalled in contemporary Arabic literature in its spontaneity....
(1953)
List of Moorish writers
Writers from AndalusiaAl-Andalus
Al-Andalus was the Arabic name given to a nation and territorial region also commonly referred to as Moorish Iberia. The name describes parts of the Iberian Peninsula and Septimania governed by Muslims , at various times in the period between 711 and 1492, although the territorial boundaries...
, in the period 750–1496, writing in Arabic are generally referred to as Moorish writers. For a part (1085–1238) of that Moorish period, Andalusia
Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus was the Arabic name given to a nation and territorial region also commonly referred to as Moorish Iberia. The name describes parts of the Iberian Peninsula and Septimania governed by Muslims , at various times in the period between 711 and 1492, although the territorial boundaries...
and Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
formed one state. After that (1238–1492) the Merinid dynasty of Morocco kept close ties with the Kingdom of Granada.
- Al-TutiliAl-TutiliAl-A'ma al-Tutili was a Muwallad poet born in Tudela in Al-Andalus. Al-A'ma' means 'the blind one' and 'Tutili' means 'from Tudela'. He was raised in Seville there he gained talent in poetry, he later lived in Murcia. He died young...
(−1126) - Ibn al-AbbarIbn al-AbbarIbn al-Abbar, in full Abu Abd Allah Muhammad Ibn al-Abbar was a well-known poet, diplomat, theologian and scholar from al-Andalus and perhaps the most famous man of letters produced by the city of Valencia during the Middle Ages.Ibn al-Abbar began his official career as a secretary to the Muslim...
(1199–1260) - Ibn Abd RabbihIbn Abd RabbihIbn `Abd Rabbih or Ibn `Abd Rabbihi was a Moorish writer and poet. He was born in Cordova, now in Spain, and descended from a freed slave of Hisham I, the second Spanish Umayyad emir. He enjoyed a great reputation for learning and eloquence. Not much is known about his life...
(860–940) - Abu MadyanAbu MadyanAbu Madyan , also known as Abū Madyan S̲h̲uʿayb, Abū Madyan, or Sidi Abu Madyan Shuayb ibn al-Hussein al-Ansari, was an influential Andalusian mystic and Sufist. Some even refer to him as the national figure of Maghreb mysticism as he was such a forerunner of Sufism in this geographical area...
(1126–1198) - Muhammad Ibn Abbad Al MutamidMuhammad Ibn Abbad Al MutamidMuhammad Ibn Abbad Al Mutamid was the third and last ruler of the taifa of Seville in Al-Andalus. He was a member of the Abbadid dynasty....
(1040–1095) - Abu Abdullah al-BakriAbu Abdullah al-Bakri', or simply Al-Bakri was an Andalusian-Arab geographer and historian.-Life:Al-Bakri was born in Huelva, the son of the sovereign of the short lived principality of Huelva. When his father was deposed by al-Mu'tadid he moved to Córdoba where he studied with the geographer al-Udri and the...
(1014–1094) - Ibn al-KattaniIbn al-KattaniAbu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn al-Husayn Ibn al-Kattani , sometimes nicknamed "al-Mutatabbib" , was a well known Moorish scholar, philosopher, physician, astrologer, man of letters, and poet....
(951–1029) - Ibn al-KhatibIbn al-KhatibLisan al-Din ibn al-Khatib was a poet, writer, historian, philosopher, physician and politician from Emirate of Granada. Some of his poems decorate the walls of the Alhambra in Granada.He was born at Loja, near Granada...
(1313–1374) - Abu al-QasimAbu al-QasimAbu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi , also known in the West as Abulcasis, was an Arab physician who lived in Al-Andalus. He is considered the greatest medieval surgeon to have appeared from the Islamic World, and has been described by some as the father of modern surgery...
(936–1014) - Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi (−1388)
- Ibn al-YayyabIbn al-YayyabIbn al-Yayyab or Abu l-Hasan Ali b. Muhammad b. Sulayman b. `Ali b. Sulayman b. Hasan al-Ansari was a Muwallad statesman and poet from the Nasrid kingdom of Granada. He preceded Ibn al-Khatib as vizir at the court of Granada. He wrote qasidas in a neo-classical style...
(1274–1349) - Ibn AmiraIbn AmiraIbn Amira or Ahmad ibn Abd Allah Ibn Amira was a historian, poet, and scholar of law from al-Andalus during the reign of the Almohad dynasty...
(1186–1251/1259) - Ibn AmmarIbn AmmarIbn Ammar 1031–1086) was a Muwallad poet from Silves.Ibn Ammar, descended from a Portuguese Muslim family, became Grand Vizier of the taifa of Seville. Though he was poor and unknown, his skill in poetry brought him the friendship of the young Abbad III al-Mu'tamid, who named him prime...
(c.1031–c.1086) - Ibn ArabiIbn ArabiIbn ʿArabī was an Andalusian Moorish Sufi mystic and philosopher. His full name was Abū 'Abdillāh Muḥammad ibn 'Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn `Arabī .-Biography:...
(1165–1240) - Ibn BajjahIbn BajjahAbū-Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn al-Sāyigh , known as Ibn Bājjah , was an Andalusian polymath: an astronomer, logician, musician, philosopher, physician, physicist, psychologist, botanist, poet and scientist. He was known in the West by his Latinized name, Avempace...
(Avempace) (−1138) - Ibn BaqiIbn BaqiIbn Baqi or Abu Bakr Yahya Ibn Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Rahman Ibn Baqi was an arab poet from Córdoba or Toledo in al-Andalus. Baqi is one of the best-known strophic poets and song writers of the Nasrid dynasty period in Al-Andalus. He moved between Morocco and Al-Andalus and wrote several poems...
(−1145 or 1150) - Moses ibn EzraMoses ibn EzraRabbi Moses ben Jacob ibn Ezra, known as ha-Sallah was a Jewish, Spanish philosopher, linguist, and poet. He was born at Granada about 1055 – 1060, and died after 1138. Ezra is Jewish by religion but is also considered a great influence in the Arabic world in regards to his works...
(c.1058–c.1138) - Solomon ibn GabirolSolomon ibn GabirolSolomon ibn Gabirol, also Solomon ben Judah , was an Andalucian Hebrew poet and Jewish philosopher with a Neoplatonic bent. He was born in Málaga about 1021; died about 1058 in Valencia.-Biography:...
(1021–1058) - Ibn HazmIbn HazmAbū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm ) was an Andalusian philosopher, litterateur, psychologist, historian, jurist and theologian born in Córdoba, present-day Spain...
(994–1064) - Ibn JubayrIbn JubayrIbn Jubayr was a geographer, traveler and poet from al-Andalus.-Early life:Born in Valencia in Spain, then the seat of an independent emirate. Ibn Jubayr was descendant of a tribe of Andalusian origins, Jubayr was the son of a civil servant...
(1145–1217) - Ibn JuzayyIbn JuzayyAbū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ahmad Ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi was a scholar, writer of poetry, history, and law from Al-Andalus. He is also known as the writer who dictated the travels of Ibn Battuta...
(1321–1357) - Ibn al-KattaniIbn al-KattaniAbu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn al-Husayn Ibn al-Kattani , sometimes nicknamed "al-Mutatabbib" , was a well known Moorish scholar, philosopher, physician, astrologer, man of letters, and poet....
(951–1029) - Ibn KhafajaIbn KhafajaIbn Khafaja or Abu Ishaq Ibn Ibrahim Ibn Abu Al-Fath Ibn Khafajah of Alzira was one of the most famous poets of Al-Andalus during the reign of the Almoravids. He was born in 1058 in Alzira near Valencia where he spent most of his life.He developed nature poetry to a great level of...
(1058–1138/9) - Al-Fath ibn KhaqanAl-Fath ibn KhaqanAl-Fath Ibn Khaqan was a well-known writer from al-Andalus. Al-Kaysi means: member of the tribe of Kais, al-Isbili: native of Sevilla. He is the author of "Qalaid Al-iqyan"Al-Fath Ibn Khaqan (or Abu Nasr al-Fath ibn Mohammed Ibn Obeid Allah Ibn Khaqan Ibn Abdallah Al-kaysi al-Ishbili) (also...
(−1134) - Ibn Qasi (−1141)
- Ibn QuzmanIbn QuzmanMuhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Quzman was the single most famous poet in the history of al-Andalus and he is also considered to be one of its most original. He was born and died in Cordoba and has earned his fame by his zajals...
(1078–1160) - Ibn Rushd (AverroesAverroes' , better known just as Ibn Rushd , and in European literature as Averroes , was a Muslim polymath; a master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics, Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy,...
) (1126–1198) - Ibn Sahl of SevillaIbn Sahl of SevillaIbn Sahl of Seville is considered one of the greatest Moorish poets of Andalusia of the 13th century. He was a Jewish convert to Islam....
(1212–1251) - Ibn Said al-MaghribiIbn SaidAli ibn Musa ibn Said al-Maghribi , also known as Ibn Said al-Andalusi, was a geographer, historian and the most important collector of poetry from al-Andalus in the 12th and 13th centuries. Ibn Said was born at Alcalá la Real near Granada, and grew up in Marrakesh. He subsequently studied in...
(1213–1286) - Ibn TufailIbn TufailIbn Tufail was an Andalusian Muslim polymath: an Arabic writer, novelist, Islamic philosopher, Islamic theologian, physician, vizier,...
(1105–1185) - Ibn ZaydunIbn ZaydúnAbu al-Waleed Ahmad Ibn Zaydún al-Makhzumi known as Ibn Zaydún was a famous Arab poet of Cordoba and Seville. His romantic and literary life was dominated by his relations with the poetess Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, the daughter of the Ummayad Caliph Muhammad III of Cordoba...
(1003–1071) - Ibn ZamrakIbn ZamrakIbn Zamrak or Abu Abd Allah Muhammad b, Yusuf b. Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Yusuf al-Surayhi, was a poet and statesman from Granada, Al-Andalus. Some his poems still decorate the fountains and palaces of Alhambra in Granada.He was of humble origin but thanks to his teacher Ibn al-Khatib he...
(1333–1394) - Ibn al-ZaqqaqIbn al-ZaqqaqFor the Maliki scholar see Ali ibn Qasim al-Zaqqaq.Ali ibn Attiya ibn al-Zaqqaq was one of the great poets of Al-Andalus during the reign of the Almoravids...
(ca.1100–1134)
See also
- African Writers SeriesAfrican Writers SeriesAfrican Writers Series is a series of books by African writers which has been published by Heinemann since 1962. The series has been a vehicle for some of the most important African writers, ensuring an international voice to literary masters including Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Steve Biko,...
- Lists of authors
- List of African writers by country
External links
- Literatura Marroqui Contemporanea (lexicon of author-biographies in Spanish)http://www.literaturamarroqui.edu.es/autores.htm (retrieved Feb. 10, 2009)
- Index of The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature, ed Abiola Irele and Simon Gikandi, 2 vls, Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge University Press, 2004. http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521594349&ss=ind
- Poetry International Web, Morocco http://morocco.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_name=morocco
- Abdellatif Akbib, Abdelmalek Essaadi, Birth and Development of the Moroccan Short Story, University, Morocco http://rmmla.wsu.edu/ereview/54.1/articles/akbib.asp (retrieved March 25, 2009)
- Suellen Diaconoff, Professor of French, Colby College: Women writers of Morocco writing in French, 2005 (Survey) http://www.colby.edu/personal/s/s_diacon/bibliography.html
- Maghreb Arts, Some Key Figures of Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian literature http://maghrebi-studies.nitle.org/newmaghrebistudies.nitle.org/index.php/maghrebi/literature/key_literature_figures
- Bibliography of sources on Moroccan literature in all languages http://www.literaturamarroqui.edu.es/otros/Fuentes.pdf
- In Spanish: Enciclopedia GER, P. Martsnez Montávez, "Marruecos (magrib Al-agsá) VI. Lengua y Literatura." retrieved on February 28, 2008