Malik ibn al-Murahhal

Malik ibn al-Murahhal or Abu l-Hakam/Abu l-Mayd Malik ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Ali ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn (al-)Faray ibn (al-)Azraq ibb Saad/Munir ibn Salim ibn (al-)Faray al-Masmudi al-Malaqi al-Sabti (13 August 1207, in Málaga 10 April 1289, in Fez) is considered to be one of the greatest Moroccan poets.[1] He belonged to a Masmudi family and was born in Malaga, but grew up in Ceuta [2] and was the chancellor of Marinid sultans like Abu Yusuf Yaqub.[3][4] He is the author of 24 books among which a panegyric of the Prophet in popular form.

References

  1. Instituto Hispano-Arabe de Cultura, Literatura y pensamiento marroquíes contemporáneos, 1981, ISBN 84-7472-032-X , p. 5
  2. Halima Ferhat, Sabta des origines au xivème siècle, 1993, p. 424
  3. Ed de Moor, Otto Zwartjes, G. J. H. van Gelder, Poetry, Politics and Polemics: Cultural Transfer Between the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, 1996 ISBN 90-420-0105-4, p. 67,
  4. Shatzmiller, L'Historiographie Merinide: Ibn Khaldun et ses contemporains, 1982 p. 112


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