Abu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Zakur (; died 1708) 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 about a journey he made to Algeria in 1682. His poems were published in a diwan.
References
- Arthur Wormhoudt (ed. and transl.), Selections from the Diwan by Abu 'Abdallah Muhammed ibn Qasim Ibn Zakur, William Penn College, 1995,
- Poemas selectos de Ibn Zakur, Lo presenta texto arabe el Profesor Abdul-lah Gannun el Hassani, Publicaciones del Instituto General Franco para la Investigacion Hispano-Arabe, 1945
- Abderahmane El Moudden, "The Ambivalence of Rihla: Community, Integration and Self-Definition in Moroccan Travel Accounts, 1300âÂÂ1800", in: Muslim Travelers: Pilgrimage, Migration and the Religious Imagination, ed. Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990, 69âÂÂ84
- Viguera, MarÃÂa Jesús, "La "Historia" de Ibn Zakur : (traducción anotada del capÃÂtulo sobre los Benimerines)", Madrid : Asociación Nacional de Bibliotecarios, Archivos y, 1974, pp. 515âÂÂ539 (from: Homenaje a Guillermo Guastavino miscelánea de estudios en el año de su jubilación como director de la Biblioteca Nacional)
- Muhammad ibn Qasim Ibn Zakur, Al-Sani Al-Badi Fi Sharh Al-Hilliyah Dhat Al-Badi, Rabat,