Mohammed al-Ifrani

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ifrānī al-Sūsī al-Marrākushī () (1669/1670), called al-Ṣaghīr, was a Moroccan historian and biographer.

Biography

al-Ifrani was born in 1669/1670 in Marrakesh. His family was from the Ifran tribe, a Shilha Berber tribe of the Draa River basin in the Sous region. He began his studies in his hometown, where he followed the courses of the scholar, Abu al-Ê¿Abbas Ahmad ibn Ê¿Ali al-Mawasi al-Susi (d. 1718). Then he went to Fez to continue his studies in the al-Qarawiyyin, where he attended the lessons of scholars such as Ahmad ibn Abd el-Hayy al-Halabi and Muhammad ibn Ê¿Abd al-Rahman ibn Ê¿Abd al-Qadir al-Fasi.

Works

Some of his works are:

• Nuzhat al-ḥādÄ« bi-akhbār mulÅ«k al-qarn al-ḥādÄ«, a chronicle of the Saadid sultans of Morocco
• al-Maslak al-sahl fi sharḥ tawshīḥ Ibn Sahl, a commentary on Tawshīḥ or Muwashshaḥah of the Andalusian poet, Ibn Sahl
• Safwat man intashar min akhbār sulaḥāʾ al-qarn al-ḥādi Ê¿ashar, a compilation of biographies of 17th-century Moroccan saints
• al-Zill al-warif fÄ« mafākhir Mawlanā Ismāʿīl ibn al-SharÄ«f (or Rawdat at-tarif), a monograph on the Alaouite sultan of Morocco, Moulay Ismail Ibn Sharif
• Durar al-hijal fi ma'athir sabÊ¿at rijāl, a monograph on the Seven Saints of Marrakesh
• al-Mu'rib fÄ« akhbār al-Maghrib, a general history of Morocco until his time

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