Ibn Askar () or Abu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Ali ibn Omar ibn Husain ibn Misbah ibn Askar (1529–1579) was a Moroccan historian, author of ''Dawhat al-Nashir li-Mahasin man kana min al-Maghrib min Ahl al-Karn al-ashir'', a hagiographic dictionary, composed about the year 1575 which gives a comprehensive picture of the Jazulliya order and its offshoots.Martijn Theodoor Houtsma, ''E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam'', 1913-1936, Volume 2, p. 363 Ibn Askar died in the battle of Ksar al-Kebir. (He is not to be confused with the Andalusian Ibn Askar (d. 1238), author of ''Alam Malaqa''.)

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1579 deaths 1529 births 16th-century Moroccan historians {{Morocco-writer-stub