Abu Faris abd al-Aziz al-Maghrawi (; d. 1605) was a Moroccan poet and the first known author of a

qasida The qaṣīda (also spelled ''qaṣīdah''; is originally an Arabic word , plural ''qaṣā’id'', ; that was passed to some other languages such as fa, قصیده or , ''chakameh'', and tr, kaside) is an ancient Arabic word and form of writin ...

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malhun Malhun (Arabic الملحون / ALA-LC: ''al-malḥūn''), meaning "the melodic poem", is a form of music that originated in Morocco.Mounira SolimanPopular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A Postcolonial Outlook p.58 (Routledge 2013) � ...

. He was one of the poets of the court of the

Saadian The Saadi Sultanate (also rendered in English as Sa'di, Sa'did, Sa'dian, or Saadian; ar, السعديون, translit=as-saʿdiyyūn) was a state which ruled present-day Morocco and parts of West Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries. It was l ...

sultan

Ahmad al-Mansur Ahmad al-Mansur ( ar, أبو العباس أحمد المنصور, Ahmad Abu al-Abbas al-Mansur, also al-Mansur al-Dahabbi (the Golden), ar, أحمد المنصور الذهبي; and Ahmed al-Mansour; 1549 in Fes – 25 August 1603, Fes) was the ...

(1578–1602). He is still well known in Morocco. His name is preserved in the proverb "Nothing that is long is of interest except the palmtree and al-Maghrawi". One of his best known poems is "Chafett Aïni Ya Raoui".

References

*A. A. Dellaï, ''Chansons de La Casbah' ', p. 12 *M. Th.Houtsma, ''E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936'', p. 603 *Saïd El Meftahi, ''L'art du Melhoun, son histoire, ses richesses'

p. 3 *Abu Ali al-Ghawthi, ''Kashf al-Kina an Alat al-Sima'', Algiers 1904, p. 49-93 16th-century Moroccan people 16th-century Moroccan poets 17th-century Moroccan people 17th-century Moroccan poets Moroccan songwriters {{Morocco-poet-stub People from Tafilalt