Mohammed Boujendar (1889âÂÂ1926) was a Moroccan historian and poet. He worked as a translator for the Résidence Générale du Protectorat, published articles for the Arab language weekly As-Sa'ada (Happiness) and was a professor of literature (from 1913) at the Institut des Hautes ÃÂtudes Marocaines in Rabat.
Some of his books are:
- Muqaddimat al-fath min tarikh ribat al-fath, (a history of Rabat), imprimerie du Bulletin officiel, Rabat, 1926
- al-Ightibat bi-tarajimi a 'lam ar-ribat (çÃÂçúêèç÷ èêñçìÃÂ
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 Ã¢la wa âtâruha (ta' lîf), in French: Chellah et ses ruines: Histoire de la Zaouia de Chellah et description de ses ruines, 1922
- Al 'Itre al masky ( about his teacher Mekki Betaouri).
Boujendar was active in organizing literary salons in the 1920s, a tradition that would later be followed by Rabat's Abdallah al-Jirari in the 1930s.
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