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* Eliette Abécassis (born 1969) * Leila Abouzeid (born 1950) *

Mohammed Achaari Mohammed Achaari ( ar, محمد الأشعري; born 1951) is a Moroccan writer and politician. Early life He was born in Moulay Idriss, Moulay Driss Zerhoun. He studied law at the Mohammed V University and graduated in 1976. He published a col ...

(born 1951) * Said Achtouk (died 1989) * Issa Aït Belize * Lotfi Akalay (1943–2019) * Mohammed Akoujan *

Mehdi Akhrif Mehdi () is a common Arabic masculine given name, meaning "rightly guided". People having the name Mehdi are in general originating from Iran mostly and sometimes India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Azerbaijan, France, Morocco, Algeria, ...

(born 1952) * Mohammed ibn Mohammed Alami (1932–1993) * Idriss ibn al-Hassan al-Alami (1925–2007) * Ahmad al-Tayyeb Aldj (1928–2012) * Tewfik Allal (born 1947) * Farid al-Ansari (1960–2009) * Najib El Aoufi (born 1948) *

Robert Assaraf Robert Assaraf ( ar, روبرت الصراف) (5 November 1936 in Rabat – 5 March 2018 in Ramat HaSharon) was a Moroccan Jewish historian and writer. He resided between Paris, France and Marrakesh, Morocco. Personal life Assaraf married Mi ...

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Nabil Ayouch Nabil Ayouch (born 1 April 1969) is a Franco-Moroccan television and film director, producer, and writer. His films have screened at international film festivals including the Cannes Film Festival and Montreal World Film Festival. Early life H ...

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Ali Azaykou Ali Sidqi Azaykou (; 1942–2004), also called Dda Ali,« Hommage. Azayku l'Amazigh » par Maria Daïf, ''TelQuel'' n°14 was a Moroccan Berber poet, historian, philosopher and critic. He was an Amazigh activist. He has greatly influenced the cul ...

(1942–2004)

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* * Souad Bahéchar (born 1953) *

Latifa Baka Latifa Baka (born 1964), is a Moroccan author of novels and short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the inte ...

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Ahmed Barakat Ahmad ( ar, أحمد, ʾAḥmad) is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other spellings of the name include Ahmed and Ahmet. Etymology The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the ve ...

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Muriel Barbery Muriel Barbery (born 28 May 1969) is a French novelist and philosophy teacher. Her 2006 novel '' The Elegance of the Hedgehog'' quickly sold more than a million copies in several countries. Biography Barbery was born in Rabat, Morocco, but she ...

(born 1969) *

Laarbi Batma Laarbi Batma (or Laarbi Batma) ( ar, العربي باطما; born in Chaouia; 1948 - 7 February 1997) was a Moroccan musician, poet, singer, writer, actor, and the front man of the group Nass El Ghiwane. Early life Batma grew up in the Hay ...

(1948–1998) *

Hafsa Bekri-Lamrani Hafsa or Hafsah ( ar, حفصة; which is very often confused with ''Hafza'' and ''Hafiza'', but all three of them are different names) is an Arabic female given name. It originated from Hafsa, the fourth wife of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and d ...

Abdelmalek Belghiti Abdelmalek Belghiti (1906 in Fes – 2010) was a writer who has been called the prince of the poets of Morocco in the 1950s.Admin, ''Marocwebo'', November 23, 2010, "Décès du poète Abdelmalek Belghiti" http://www.marocwebo.com/deces-poete- ...

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Abdeslam Benabdelali Abd al-Salam ( ar, عبد السلام) is a male Muslim honorific or given name, built on the Arabic words '' Abd'', '' al-'' and '' Salam''. The name means "servant of the All-peaceable", ''as-Salam'' being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, ...

Abdelkader Benali Abdelkader Benali ( ar, عبد القادر بنعلي; born 25 November 1975 in Ighazzazen, Morocco) is a Moroccan-Dutch writer and journalist. When he was four years old, he and his family, of Berber background, migrated to The Netherlands and ...

(born 1975) *

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(1920–1965) * Zoubeir Ben Bouchta *

Halima Ben Haddou Halima or Halimah or Halime and Halimeh ( ar, حليمة ) /halima/, pronounced ha-LEE-mah, is a female given name of Arabic origin meaning forebearing, gentle, mild-mannered and generous. It may refer to: People with the mononym * Halimah IV, al ...

(born 1954) *

Tahar Ben Jelloun Tahar Ben Jelloun ( ar, الطاهر بن جلون; born in Fes, Morocco, 1 December 1944) is a Moroccan writer. All of his work is written in French although his first language is Darija. He became known for his 1985 novel ''L’Enfant de Sab ...

(born 1944) * Siham Benchekroun *

Ahmed Benchemsi Ahmed Reda Benchemsi ( ar, أحمد رضا بنشمسي) is a Moroccan journalist. He is the founder and was the publisher and editor of '' TelQuel'' and ''Nichane'' magazines. Biography Education Benchemsi attended high school in Casabla ...

Rajae Benchemsi Rajae Benchemsi (born 1957 in Meknes) is a Moroccan writer. Benchemsi studied literature in Paris and wrote her thesis on Maurice Blanchot. She has published collections of poetry in Morocco and in France France (), officially the Fr ...

(born 1957) *

Esther Bendahan Esther Bendahan Cohen (Tétouan, 1964) is a Moroccan-Spanish writer. Her Moroccan Jewish family went to Madrid when she was a child, in this city she studied Psychology and French Literature. She is the director of the television program ''Shalom ...

(born 1964) * Abdelmajid Benjelloun (1919–1981) * Abdelmajid Benjelloun (born 1944) *

Abdelwahab Benmansour Abdelwahab Benmansour ( ar, عبد الوهاب بن منصور ; born 1920, Fes – died 13 November 2008, Rabat) was a Moroccan historian and civil servant. His most important work is "The tribes of Morocco" ( ar, قبائل المغرب), ...

(1920–13 November 2008) * Abdelouahid Bennani (born 1958) *

Mohammed Suerte Bennani Mohammed Suerte Bennani (born Rabat, October 1961) is a Moroccan author of a science-fiction novel, ''L'Arc'', published in May 2008. Publications * L'Arc References External links *http://www.telquel-online.com/380/mage_culture2_380.shtml *h ...

(born 1961) *

Mohammed Bennis Mohammed Bennis ( ar, محمد بنيس; born 1948) is a Moroccan poet and one of the most prominent writers of modern Arabic poetry. Since the 1970s, he has enjoyed a particular status within Arab culture. Muhsin J al-Musawi states that "Bennis� ...

(born 1948) * Khnata Bennouna (born 1940) *

Mohammed Benzakour Mohammed Benzakour (born 10 January 1972 in Nador, Morocco) is a Moroccan-Dutch columnist, essayist, poet, writer and politician. He is the third child in a family of five. At age three, he and mother and siblings settle in Zwijndrecht, Netherland ...

(born 1972) *

Mohammed Berrada Mohammed Berrada ( ar, محمد برادة), also transliterated Muhammad Baradah (born 1938 in Rabat) is a Moroccan novelist, literary critic and translator writing in Arabic. He is considered one of Morocco's most important modern authors.Salim ...

(born 1938) * Hafsa Bikri (born 1948) * Mahi Binebine (born 1959) * Mohammed Ibrahim Bouallou (born 1934) *

Ali Bourequat Ali Bourequat is a successful Moroccan/Tunisian businessman who was secretly arrested and incarcerated for years by the Moroccan government in the infamous secret prison Tazmamart.Alain Brossat, Jean-Louis Déotte, ''La mort dissoute: dispariti ...

* Hassan Bourkia (born 1956) *

Ahmed Bouzfour Ahmed Bouzfour ( ar, أحمد بوزفور) (born 1940s, in Taza) is a Moroccan novelist. Biography Born in the early 1940s near to Taza, Bouzfour received his primary education and learned the Qur'an in a Quranic school. He then studied at th ...

(born 1954) * Al-Yazid al-Buzidi Bujrafi (1925–2011)

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Mohamed Chafik Mohamed Chafik (; ), born 17 September 1926, is a leading figure in the Amazigh (also known as Berber) cultural movement. An original author of the Amazigh Manifesto, he was later appointed as the first Rector of the Royal Institute of the Ama ...

(born 1926) *

Nadia Chafik Nadia Chafik (born 02 01 1962 in Casablanca) is a Moroccan people, Moroccan novelist. Biography Nadia Chafik was born in Casablanca in 1962, and grew up in Rabat. She is from the Ait Sadden tribe, a Middle Atlas Berbers, Berber tribe. Chafik s ...

(born 1962) * Abdelkader Chaoui (born 1950) *

Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi Driss ben Hamed Charhadi (1937–1986) is the alias for Larbi Layachi, a Moroccan story-teller, some of whose stories have been translated by Paul Bowles from Moroccan Arabic to English. His book, '' A Life Full of Holes'' was tape-recorded and t ...

(1937–1986) * Abdelkader Chatt (1904–1992) *

Mohamed Choukri Mohamed Choukri (Arabic: محمد شكري, Berber languages, Berber: ⵎⵓⵃⴰⵎⵎⴻⴷ ⵛⵓⴽⵔⵉ) (15 July 193515November 2003, was a Moroccan author and novelist who is best known for his internationally acclaimed autobiography ''Fo ...

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Driss Chraïbi Driss Chraïbi (July 15, 1926 – April 1, 2007) was a Moroccan author whose novels deal with colonialism, culture clashes, generational conflict and the treatment of women and are often perceived as semi-autobiographical. Born in El Jadida an ...

(1926–2007)

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Mohammed Daoud Mohammed Daoud (also Muḥammad Dāwūd) (1901-1984) was a Moroccan writer and historian. He was a major nationalist in northern Morocco during its struggle for independence from occupation by Spanish forces. Life Daoud tutored both the calip ...

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Zakya Daoud Zakya Daoud (real name Jacqueline Loghlam) is a French journalist. She was born in 1937 in Bernay in France. She was naturalized Moroccan and changed her name in 1959.Abdeslam Kadiri, "Portrait. Les mille vies de Zakya Daoud", ''Telquel'', 13 F ...

(born 1937) * Mohammed Ben Abdelaziz Debbarh (1928–2008) * Farida Diouri (1953–2004)

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* Youssouf Amine Elalamy (born 1961) * Mahdi Elmandjra (1933–2014)

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* Youssef Fadel (born 1949) *

Allal al-Fassi Muhammad Allal al-Fassi (ⵄⵍⵍⴰⵍ ⵍⴼⴰⵙⵉ) (January 10, 1910 – May 13, 1974), was a Moroccan politician, writer, poet and Islamic scholar. Politics He was born in Fes, Morocco. He studied at the University of Al-Qarawiyyin. F ...

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Malika al-Fassi Malika al-Fassi (, b. 19 June 1919 – d. 12 May 2007) was a Moroccan writer and nationalist. She was the only woman to sign the Proclamation of Independence of Morocco in 1944. She was a student of Abdeslam Serghini. At a very ...

(1920–2007) * Halima Ferhat (born 1941) *

Mohammed al-Habib al-Fourkani Mohammed al-Habib al-Fourkani (1922 in Tahannaout – 2008) was a Moroccan writer, historian and politician who played an important role during the struggle for independence. Works *''Attaoura al khamissa'' (The fifth revolution) *''Noujoum fi Ya ...

(1922–2008)

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* Abdelkrim Ghallab (1919–2006) * Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari (1920–1997) *

Abdullah al-Ghumari Abu al-Fadl Abdullah bin Muhammad bin al-Siddiq al-Ghumari ( ar, عبد الله بن الصديق الغماري; 1910–1993) was a Muslim preacher, scholar of hadith, jurist and theologian from Morocco. Life Ghumari was born in Tangier in ...

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Ahmad al-Ghumari Ahmad bin Muhammad bin al-Siddiq al-Ghumari was a Muslim traditionist and scholar of Hadith from Morocco. Career Ghumari authored more than one hundred books. He was well known for a debate which acrimoniously began between him and fellow hadith ...

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Abdallah Guennoun Abdellah Guennoun ( ʻAbd Allāh Gannūn, Born 16 September 1908 in Fes – died 9 July 1989 in Tangier) was an influential Moroccan writer, historian, essayist, poet, academic, administrator, journalist, and '' faqīh''. He was one of the leade ...

(1910–1989) * Soumya Naâmane Guessous

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* Mohammed Aziz El-Hababi (1922–1993) * Mouna Hachim (born 1967) *

Najat El Hachmi Najat El Hachmi (born in Morocco on July 2, 1979) is a Moroccan-Spanish writer. She holds a degree in Arabic Studies from the University of Barcelona. She is the author of a personal essay on her bicultural identity, and three previous novels, th ...

(born 1979) * Ali Haddani (1936–2007) * Badia Hadj Nasser (born 1938) * Allal El Hajjam (born 1948) * Mohammed Hajuji (died 1952) * Mohammed El Haloui (1923–2004) * Mohammed al-Harradi * Ahmed Harrak Srifi (died 1925) * Mohammed ibn al-Hasan al-Hajwi (died 1956) * Ben Salem Himmich (born 1947) *

Emmanuel Hocquard Emmanuel Hocquard (11 April 1940 – 27 January 2019) was a French poet. Life He grew up in Tangier, Morocco. He served as the editor of the small press ''Orange Export Ltd.'' and, with Claude Royet-Journoud, edited two anthologies of new Amer ...

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Ali Squalli Houssaini Ali Squalli Houssaini (1932 in Fez – November 5, 2018) was the author of the lyrics of the national anthem of Morocco, "Hymne Chérifien", which he wrote in 1970. He was also the author of numerous books. A member of the Union of Moroccan Writ ...

(1932–2018)

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Mohammed Abed al-Jabri Mohammed Abed Al Jabri ( ar, محمد عابد الجابري; 27 December 1935 – 3 May 2010 Rabat) was one of the most known Moroccan and Arab philosophers; he taught philosophy, Arab philosophy, and Islamic thought in Mohammed V Universit ...

(1936–2010) * Salim Jay (born 1951) * Abbas al-Jirari (born 1937) * Abderrafi Jouahri (born 1943) * Abdelkarim Jouiti (born 1962) * Ahmed Joumari (1939–1995)

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* Maati Kabbal (born 1954) *

Mohammed Kaghat Mohammed Kaghat (1942–2001) was a Moroccan playwright, actor and stage director. He also directed several feature films and wrote several books on drama and theater in Morocco.Andrew Hammond, ''Pop Culture Arab World!: Media, Arts, and Lifesty ...

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Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine Mohammed Khair-Eddine ( zgh, ⵎⵓⵃⵎⵎⴰⴷ ⵅⴰⵢⵔ ⴷⴷⵉⵏ; ar, محمد خير الدين) (1941 – November 18, 1995) was a Moroccan poet and writer. He was among the most famous Moroccan Berber literary figures of the 20th ...

(1941–1995) * Mohammed Khammar Kanouni (1938–1991) * Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938–2009) * Rita El Khayat (born 1944) *

Driss El Khouri Driss El Khouri (1939 – 14 February 2022) was a Moroccan novelist who was one of the most acclaimed in the country. Life and career El Khouri's books convey strongly the feel of everyday Moroccan life in coffee shops and other urban settings ...

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Abdelfattah Kilito Abdelfattah Kilito ( ar, عبد الفتاح كيليطو; born 10 April 1945, in Rabat) is a Moroccan writer. He is the author of several books in Arabic and in French. He has also written articles for magazines such as ''Poétique'' and ''Stud ...

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Driss Ksikes Driss Ksikes (born 1968 in Casablanca) is a Moroccan journalist. Career He had been an editor-in-chief of the francophone Tel Quel magazine. In 2006, he left TelQuel to be the editor-in-chief and director of publication of the arabophone and ...

(born 1968)

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Abdellatif Laabi Abdellatif Laâbi is a Moroccan poet, journalist, novelist, playwright, translator and political activist, born in 1942 in Fes, Morocco. Laâbi, then teaching French, founded with other poets the artistic journal Souffles, an important literar ...

(born 1942) * Abdelrahim Lahbibi (born 1950) * Mohammed Aziz Lahbabi (1922–1993) * Amina Lahbabi-Peters * Leila Lahlou *

Laila Lalami Laila Lalami ( ar, ليلى العلمي, born 1968) is a Moroccan-American novelist, essayist, and professor. After earning her ''Licence de lettres'' degree in Morocco, she received a fellowship to study in the United Kingdom (UK), where she e ...

(born 1968) * Wafaa Lamrani (born 1960) *

Abdallah Laroui Abdallah Laroui ( ar, عبدالله العروي; born 7 November 1933) is a Moroccan philosopher, historian, and novelist. Besides some works in French, his philosophical project has been written mostly in Arabic. He is among the most read and ...

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Fouad Laroui Fouad Laroui (born 12 August 1958) is a Moroccan economist and writer, born in Oujda, Morocco. After his studies at the Lycée Lyautey (Casablanca), he joined the prestigious École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (Paris, France), where he stu ...

(born 1958) * Mohammed Leftah (1946–2008) * Ahmed Lemsih (born 1950) *

Ali Lmrabet Ali Lmrabet (born 1959) is a Moroccan journalist and a member of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights. Early life Ali came from a modest Berber family, was born in a small village called Adouz near Al-Hoceima in north Morocco. He was sc ...

(born 1959)

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Mustafa Maadawi Mustafa ( ar, مصطفى , Muṣṭafā) is one of the names of Prophet Muhammad, and the name means "chosen, selected, appointed, preferred", used as an Arabic given name and surname. Mustafa is a common name in the Muslim world. Given name Mo ...

(1937–1961) * Ahmed al-Madini (born 1949) * Edmond Amran El Maleh (1917–2010) * Zahra Mansouri *

Ahmed Mejjati Ahmed Mejjati (born in Casablanca in 1936 – October 1995) was an influential Moroccan avant-garde poet. Biography Mejjati studied in Damascus and completed his PhD in Arabic literature at the Mohammed V University in Rabat, where he also worked ...

(1936–1995) * Driss El Meliani *

Saida Menebhi Saida Menebhi (1952 in Marrakesh – 11 December 1977 in Casablanca) was a Moroccan poet, high school teacher, and activist with the Marxist revolutionary movement Ila al-Amam. In 1975, she, together with five other members of the movement, wa ...

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Fatima Mernissi Fatema Mernissi ( ar, فاطمة مرنيسي, Fāṭima Marnīsī; 27 September 1940 – 30 November 2015) was a Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist. Biography Fatema Mernissi was born on 27 September 1940 in Fez, Morocco. She grew up in ...

(1940–2015) * Abderrahmane El Moudden * Omar Mounir * Khireddine Mourad (born 1950) * Malika Moustadraf (1969–2006) * Mohammed El-Moustaoui (born 1943) * Mouad Moutaoukil (born 1997) * Mohamed Mrabet (born 1936)

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* Mririda n'Ait Attik (c. 1900–c. 1930) *

Mohammed al-Makki al-Nasiri Mohammed al-Makki al-Nasiri (1906–1994) was a Moroccan religious scholar and nationalist politician active in the 1930s and 1940s. He was a member of the "Comité d'action marocaine" in 1934 and the founder of the "Hizb al-Wahda al-Magribiyya" (T ...

(1906–1994) * Mohamed Nedali (born 1962) *

Mostafa Nissaboury Nissaboury was co-founders of the magazine '' Anfas/Souffles'' Mostafa Nissaboury (born in Casablanca in 1943) is a Moroccan poetand was a co-founder of the magazine '' Anfas/Souffles'' ("Breaths") with Abdellatif Laabi. Nissaboury was an essay ...

(born 1943)

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* Rachid O (born 1970) * Salah El-Ouadie (born 1952) * Mohammed Hassan El Ouazzani (1910–1978) *

Malika Oufkir Malika Oufkir ( ar, مليكة أوفقير) (born April 2, 1953 in Marrakesh) is a Moroccan Berber writer and former "disappeared". She is the daughter of General Mohamed Oufkir and a cousin of fellow Moroccan writer and actress Leila Shenna. ...

(born 1953) * Touria Oulehri

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Bachir Qamari Bashir Qamari ( ar, بشير القمري; 10 January 1951 – 24 June 2021) was a Moroccan literary critic, novelist and playwright. Biography Qamari was born in Nador in 1951. He studied Arabic literature at the Mohammed V University in Raba ...

(1951–2021)

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* Mubarak Rabi (born 1938) *

Mohamed Said Raihani Mohamed Saïd Raïhani ( ar, محمد سعيد الريحاني) is a Moroccan translator, novelist and short-story writer born on December 23, 1968 in Ksar el Kebir, north of Morocco. He is a member of ''Moroccan Writers’ Union'', holder of a ...

(born 1968) * Fouzia Rhissassi * Najima Rhozali (born 1960)

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* Mohammed Sabbag (born 1930) * Mohammed Sabila * Abdeldjabbar Sahimi (born 1938) * Abdelhadi Said (born 1974) * Amale Samie (1954–2018) * Thouria Saqqat (1935–1992) * Tayeb Seddiki (1938–2016) *

Ahmed Sefrioui Ahmed Sefrioui ( ar, أحمد صفروي) (January 1, 1915 - February 25, 2004) was a Moroccan novelist and pioneer of Moroccan literature in the French language. Biography He was born in Fes, Morocco, Fes in 1915 of Berber people, Berber parent ...

(1915–2004) * Mohamed Serghini (born 1930) *

Abdelhak Serhane Abdelhak Serhane (born in Sefrou in 1950) is a Moroccan novelist writing in French. Serhane grew up in the Middle Atlas region of Morocco, in the village Azrou. Early life He studied psychology at the University of Toulouse II and taught at the ...

(born 1950) * Mohamed Sibari (1945–2013) * Hourya Sinaceur * Mohammed Allal Sinaceur (born 1941) * Ali Siqli (born 1932) *

Faouzi Skali Faouzi Skali is a Moroccan anthropologist and prominent Sufi scholar. He is the founder and president of the Fes World Festival of Sacred Music and the Fes Festival of Sufi Culture. In 2001, he was dubbed by the United Nations as one of the twelv ...

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Mohammed al-Mokhtar Soussi Mohammed al-Mokhtar Soussi ( ar, محمد المختار السوسي; 1900–1963) was a Moroccan Berber scholar, politician and writer who played an important role in the years before Morocco's independence in 1956.Charles Olivier Carbonell, "Un ...

(1900–1963)

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* Abdelkarim Tabbal (born 1931) * Hicham Tahir (born 1989) *

Abdellah Taïa Abdellah Taïa ( ar, عبد الله الطايع; born 1973) is a Moroccan writer and filmmaker who writes in the French language and has been based in Paris since 1998. He has published eight novels, many of them heavily autobiographical. Hi ...

(born 1973) * Boutaina Tawil * Abdelhadi Tazi (1921–2015) * Mohammed Azeddine Tazi (born 1948) * Mahjoub Tobji (born 1942) * Abdelkhalek Torres (1910–1970) * Ahmed Toufiq (born 1943) *

Houcine Toulali Houcine Toulali (1924–1998) was a Moroccan writer and singer of Malhun compositions. He wrote hundreds of qasidas. He was born in Meknes Meknes ( ar, مكناس, maknās, ; ber, ⴰⵎⴽⵏⴰⵙ, amknas; french: Meknès) is one of the f ...

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Bahaa Trabelsi Bahaa Trabelsi (born 1966) is a Moroccan novelist. Trabelsi was born in Rabat and went to secondary school in Morocco and then she emigrated to France. After her graduation in France (troisième cycle) she returned to Morocco for some time. She ...

(born 1968)

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* Tuhami al-Wazzani (1903–1972)

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* Said Yaktine (born 1955) * Yasser Harrak (born 1976) writer, commentator and founder of the Middle East Seminar forum. *

Nadia Yassine Nadia Yassine ( ar, نادية ياسين) (born December 1958) is the head of the women's branch of the Moroccan Islamist movement Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane (Justice and Spirituality). Born in Casablanca, Morocco, she is the daughter of the founder ...

(born 1958)

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* Haim Zafrani (1922–2004) * Mohamed Zafzaf (1942–2001) *

Mohammed Zniber Dr. Mohammed Zniber (1923–1993) was a Moroccan writer and historian. He also played an important role in the period of struggle for Morocco's struggle for independence from the French. He was a son of Moufti Boubker Zniber, the initiator of the ...

(1923–1993) * Abdallah Zrika (born 1953)

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* Mohammed ibn Abu al-Qasim al-Sijilmasi (died 1800) * Mohammed ibn Abd as-Salam ibn Nasir (died 1824) * Mohammed Ibn Amr (died 1827) * Ali Barrada al-Fasi Harazim (died 1856) * Thami Mdaghri (died 1856) * Idriss al-Amraoui (died 1879) * Mohammed Gannun (died 1885) * Abu Hassan Ali Mahmud al-Susi al-Simlali (died 1894) * Ahmad ibn Hamdun ibn al-Hajj (died 1898) * Mohammed al-Tahir al-Fasi (1830–1868) * Abd as-Salam al-Alami (1834–1895) *

Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Khalid an-Nasiri as-Slawi, (; 1834/5-1897) was born in Sla, Morocco and is considered to be the greatest Moroccan historian of the 19th century. He was a prominent scholar and a member of the family that founded the Nas ...

(1835–1897) * Salomon Berdugo (1854–1906) * Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Badisi (d. 1922) *

Mohammed ibn Jaafar al-Kattani Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Idrīs al-Kattānī (), born in Fes in 1858 and died in Fes in 1927 was a Moroccan scholar and theologian from the 19th century. Bibliography Al-Kattānī came from a family of Islamic scholars in Fes, the Kattānīy ...

(1858–1927) * Mohammed Slimani (1863–1926) *

Ibn Zaydan Abd al-Rahman ibn Zaydan () (June 1873 – 1946) was a Moroccan historian and literary author.E. J. van Donzel, ''Islamic Desk Reference: Compiled from the Encyclopaedia of Islam'', ed. BRILL, 1994 , p. 163 "His works may be considered as the bes ...

(1873–1946) * Mohammed Skirej (1875–1965) *

Muhammad Ibn al-Habib Muhammad ibn al-Habib ibn as-Siddiq al-Amghari al-Idrisi al-Hasani (1876–1972), was a Moroccan Islamic teacher, author, and shaykh of the Darqawi ''tariqa'' in Morocco. Life and education Muhammad Ibn al-Habib was born in Fes in 1876. At ...

(1876–1972) * Ahmed Skirej (1878–1944) * Abdelkrim al-Khattabi (1882–1963) * Mohammed Boujendar (1889–1926) * Abd Allah al-Muwaqqit al-Marrakushi (1894–1949) *

Mohammed Ben Brahim El Houari Mohammed Ben Brahim Assarraj (; 1897–1955) was a poet from Morocco. He is especially well known as the poet of Marrakech of the first part of the 20th century. He wrote poems for both king Mohammed V of Morocco, Mohammed V and for his ...

(1897–1955)

Eighteenth century

* Mohammed ibn abd al-Wahab al-Ghassani (died 1707) * Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Zakur (died 1708) * Mohammed ibn al-Tayyib al-Alami (died 1722) * Hasan ibn Rahlal al-Madani (died 1728) *

Abd al-Qadir ibn Shaqrun Ibn Shakrun or Abu Mohammed Abd al-Kadir ibn al-Arabi al-Munabbahi al-Madaghri ibn Shakrun al-Miknasi (died after 1727/28) was a Moroccan physician and poet and contemporary of Moulay Ismael. He wrote a commentary on a book of grammar, works of po ...

(died after 1727/8) * Mohammed ibn Zakri al-Fasi (died 1731) * Ahmed ibn al-Mubarak al-Lamti al-Sijilmasi (died 1741) * Khnata bent Bakkar (died 1754) * Ibn al-Wannan (died 1773) *

Ahmed al-Ghazzal Ahmed al-Ghazzal () or, in full, Abu l-Abbas Ahmed ibn Al-Mahdi al-Ghazzal al-Andalusi al-Maliqi (died in Fes, 1777) was the secretary of the Moroccan Sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah, Mohammed ibn Abdallah (1757–89). Al-Ghazzal is the author of a ri ...

(died 1777) * Abd Allah ibn Azzuz (died 1789) * Mohammed ibn Uthman al-Miknasi (died 1799) * Mohammed al-Qadiri (1712–1773) * David Hassine (1722–1792) *

Abu al-Qasim al-Zayyani Abu al-Qasim al-Zayyani () or, in full, Abu al-Qasim ibn Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Ibrahim az-Zayyani (1734/35–1833) was a Moroccan historian, geographer, poet and Diplomat, statesman from the Berbers, Berber Zayanes, Zayane tribe in Morocco. He und ...

(1734–1833) *

Kaddour El Alamy Sidi Kaddour El Alami () also transliterated as Qaddur al-Alami (born 1742 in Meknes, died 1850) is one of Morocco's best known poets, especially well known for his songs. His full name was Abd al-Qadir ibn Mohammed ibn Ahmad ibn Abi-l-Qasim al-Idr ...

(1742–1850) * Mohammed al-Ruhuni (1746–1815) * Raphael Berdugo (1747–1821) * Sulayman al-Hawwat (1747–1816) *

Ahmad ibn Ajiba Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAjība al-Ḥasanī (; 1747–1809) was an influential 18th-century Moroccan scholar and poet in the Darqawa Sufi Sunni Islamic lineage. Biography He was born of a sharif family in the Anjra tribe that ranges from Ta ...

(1747–1809) * Mohammed al-Duayf (born 1752) * Mohammed al-Tayyib ibn Kiran (1758–1812) *

Muhammad al-Arabi al-Darqawi Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Arabi al-Darqawi (; 1760–1823) was a Moroccan Sufi leader of the Shadhili tariqa and the author of letters concerning the dhikr he preached and instructions for daily life. He stressed noninvolvement in worldly affairs ...

(1760–1823) *

Hamdun ibn al-Hajj al-Fasi Hamdun ibn al Hajj () or in full Abu al-Fayd Hamdun ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Hamdun ibn Abd al-Rahman Mohammed ibn al-Hajj al-Fasi al-Sulami al-Mirdasi (1760–1817) was one of the most outstanding scholars of the reign of moulay Soulayman of Morocco ...

(1760–1817) *

Ahmad ibn Idris al-Fasi Abu al-Abbās Ahmad Ibn Idris al-Araishi al-Alami al-Idrisi al-Hasani () (1760–1837) was a Moroccan Sunni Islamic scholar, jurist and Sufi, active in Morocco, the Hejaz, Egypt, and Yemen. His main concern was the revivification of the sunnah or ...

(1760–1837) * Suleiman al-Alawi (1760–1822) * Mohammed al-Harraq (1772–1845) *

Mohammed al-Haik Ibn Abdallah Mohammed ibn al-Hussein al-Haik (; born in Tétouan, Morocco) was a Moroccan poet, musician and author of a songbook (el-kunash) comprising eleven nubas, that had been handed down for generations. The songbook, written in 1789, doesn't ...

(fl. 1790) * Mohammed al-Tawdi ibn Suda (1790–1794/5) * Ahmed al-Salawi (1791–1840) * Mohammed ibn Idris al-Amrawi (1794–1847) * Mohammed Akensus (1797–1877) *

Hemmou Talb Hemmou Talb (Tachelhit: Ḥemmu Eṭṭaleb) is an 18th-century composer of poems in the Tashelhit language of southwestern Morocco. In the Tashelhit Berber oral tradition, he is also known as Bab n Umareg, "the Master of Poetry", and a great numb ...

(18th century)

Seventeenth century

Isaac Uziel Isaac ben Abraham Uziel (died 1 April 1622, Amsterdam) ( he, יצחק בן אברהם עזיאל) was a Moroccan physician, poet and grammarian, born at Fez, Morocco. At one time he held the position of rabbi at Oran, Algeria, but late in life he ...

(died 1622) * Abd al-Rahman al-Tamanarti (died 1650) * Abu Abdallah Mohammed al-Murabit al-Dila'i (died 1678) *

Mohammed ibn Nasir Sidi Mohammed ibn Nasir ( ar, مْحَمَّد بنَّاصر) or Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Ahmed ibn Mohammed ibn al-Hussayn ibn Nasir ibn Amr abu Bakr al-Drawi al-Aghlabi (1603–1674) was a Moroccan Sufi and founder of the Nasiriyya ''zawiyya' ...

(1603–1674) * Mohammed al-Mahdi al-Fasi (1624–1698) * Mohammed al-Rudani (c. 1627–1683) * Abu Salim al-Ayyashi (1628–1679) *

Abd al-Rahman al-Fasi Abu Zaid Abd al-Rahman Abu Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Fasi (; c. 1631–1685) was a Moroccan writer in the field of law, history, astronomy and music. He wrote some 170 books and has been called the Suyuti of his time. He was born in the promin ...

(1631–1685) *

Abu Ali al-Hassan al-Yusi Abu Ali al-Hassan ibn Masud al-Yusi () (1631–1691) was a Moroccan Sufi writer. He is considered to be the greatest Moroccan scholar of the seventeenth century and was a close associate of the first Alaouite sultan Rashid. Al-Yusi was born in a ...

(1631–1691) * Ahmed al-Hashtuki (1647–1715) *

Ahmed ibn Nasir Ahmed ibn Nasir al-Dar'i () (sometimes spelled Bennacer) (1647–1717) was a Moroccan Sufi writer and head of the zawiya of the Nasiriyya brotherhood at Tamegroute, son of its founder Mohammed ibn Nasir. He made six pilgrimages to Mecca and ma ...

(1647–1717) * Abd as-Salam al-Qadiri (1648–1698) * Abd al-Wahhab Adarrak (1666–1746) *

Mohammed Awzal Muhammad bin Ali al-Hawzali (, ; 1680–1749) is the most important author in the literary tradition of the Tachelhit language. He was born around 1680 in the village of al-Qaṣaba (Elqeṣba) in tribal territory of the Induzal, in the region of ...

(1670–1749) *

Mohammed al-Ifrani Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ifrani al-Susi al-Marrakushi () (1669/1670), called al-Saghir, was a Moroccan historian and biographer. Biography al-Ifrani was born in 1669/1670 in Marrakesh. His family was from the Ifran tribe, a Shil ...

(1670–1745) * Ahmed ibn al-Mubarak al-Lamati (1679–1743) *

Ali Misbah al-Zarwili ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 common era, CE) was the last of four Rashidun, Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was ...

(1685–1737) *

Mohammed ibn al-Tayyib Mohammed bin al-Tayyib () or Abu Abdallah Mohammed bin Mohammed bin Musa bin Mohammed al-Sharqi al-Sumayli ibn Tayyib al-Fasi al-Alami (1698–1756) was a famous Moroccan linguist, historian and scholar of fikh (law) and hadith. He is the author ...

(1698–1756)

Sixteenth century

* Mohammed ibn Yajbash al-Tazi (died 1505, AH 920) * Ali ibn Qasim al-Zaqqaq (died 1506) *

Abdallah al-Ghazwani Abu Mohammed Abdallah al-Ghazwani () (died in 1529) was a Sufi saint from Morocco in the tradition of al-Jazuli and ash-Shadhili. He was the successor of Abdelaziz al-Tebaa. Some two hundred years after his death he became one of the ''Sabaat ...

(died 1529) *

Abderrahman El Majdoub Sidi Abderrahman el Majdoub ( ar, عبد الرحمان المجذوب , March 150626May 1568), also transcribed as Mejdub, full name al-Shaykh Abu Zayd Abderrahman al-Majdoub ibn Ayyad ibn Yaacub ibn Salama ibn Khashan al-Sanhaji al-Dukkali, was ...

(died 1569) * Mahammad ibn Isa al-Sanhadji (died c. 1578) * Abu-l-Hasan al-Tamgruti (died 1594/5) * Ahmed al-Mandjur (1520–1587) *

Abu Abdallah ibn Askar 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, co ...

(1529–1578) *

Abul Qasim ibn Mohammed al-Ghassani Abul Qasim ibn Mohammed ibn Ibrahim al-Wazir al-Ghassani al-Andalusi () (1548–1610) was a famous physician at the Saadian court. He studied medicine with his father. He lived in Marrakesh and Fez and was of Morisco descent. It is probable that ...

(1548–1610) *

Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali () (15491621), fully Abu Faris 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Sanhaji al-Fishtali was a Moroccan writer, head of the chancery (''wazīr ''al''-ḳalam ''al''-aʿlā''), official historiographer and official poet ...

(1549–1621) * Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi (1553–1616) *

Ahmed ibn Abi Mahalli Ahmed ibn Abi Mahalli (; 1560–1613), born in Sijilmasa, was a Moroccan Imam and the Sufi leader of a revolt (1610–13) against the reigning Saadi Sultan Zidan Abu Maali in the south of Morocco in which Ibn Abi Mahalli proclaimed himself ma ...

(1559–1613) *

Abraham Azulai Abraham ben Mordecai Azulai (c. 1570–1643) ( he, אברהם בן מרדכי אזולאי) was a Kabbalistic author and commentator born in Fez, Morocco. In 1599 he moved to Ottoman Palestine and settled in Hebron. Biography In Hebron, Azulai w ...

(c. 1570 – 1643) * Mohammed al-Arbi al-Fasi (1580–1642) *

Abdelaziz al-Maghrawi Abu Faris abd al-Aziz al-Maghrawi (; d. 1605) was a Moroccan poet and the first known author of a qasida written in malhun. He was one of the poets of the court of the Saadian sultan Ahmad al-Mansur Ahmad al-Mansur ( ar, أبو العباس � ...

(c. 1580 – 1600) * Abd al-Wahid ibn Ashir (1582–1631) *

Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maqqarī al-Tilmisānī (or al-Maḳḳarī) (), (1577-1632) was an Algerian scholar, biographer and historian who is best known for his , a compendium of the history of Al-Andalus which provided a basis for the scholar ...

(c. 1591 – 1632) *

Mahamad Mayyara Abu Abd Allah Mahamad ibn Ahmad Mayyara (; 1591–1662) was a jurist and theologian from Fes, one of the most reputable scholars of his time. He is the author of a commentary on the ''Tuhfa'' by Ibn Asim, a commentary on ''Al-Musrhid al mumin'' ...

(1591–1662) *

Abd al-Qadir al-Fasi Abd al-Qadir ibn Ali ibn Yusuf al-Fasi or Sidi Abdelkader el-Fassi (; c. 1599–1680) or, in full, Abu Mohammed, Abu Sa'ud Abd al-Qadir al-Fasi ibn Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Abu al-Mahasin Yusuf al-Qasri al-Fasi was the founder of the Shadhili zawiyya ...

(1599–1680) *

Al-Masfiwi Al-Masfiwi () was a poet in the time of Ahmad al-Mansur.The poetry of al-Masfiwi, as well as that of the other main poets of the age of al-Mansur, is analyzed in a book by the Moroccan scholar Najala al-Marini, entitled ''Al-Sh'ar al-Maghribi fi 'a ...

(16th century)

Fifteenth century

* Abdarrahman al-Makudi (died 1405) * Ali ibn Haydur at-Tadili (died 1413) * Ibrahim al-Tazi (died CE 1462/AH 866) *

Muhammad al-Jazuli Abū 'Abdullah Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Abū Bakr al-Jazūli al-Simlālī () (d. 1465AD = 870AH), often known as Imam al-Jazuli or Sheikh Jazuli, was a Moroccan Sufi Saint. He is best known for compiling the '' Dala'il al-Khayrat'', an ext ...

(died 1465) * Ibrahim ibn Hilal al-Sijilmasi (died c. 1498) *

Ibn Ghazi al-Miknasi Abu Abdallah Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Muhammad Ibn Ghazi al-'Utmani al-Miknasi () (1437–1513) was a Moroccan scholar in the field of history, Islamic law, Arabic philology and mathematics. He was born in Meknes from Banu Uthman, a clan in the ...

(1437–1513) * Ahmad Zarruq (1442–1493) *

Leo Africanus Joannes Leo Africanus (born al-Hasan Muhammad al-Wazzan, ar, الحسن محمد الوزان ; c. 1494 – c. 1554) was an Andalusian diplomat and author who is best known for his 1526 book '' Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica'', later ...

(1488–1554)

Fourteenth century

* Abu Mohammed al-Qasim al-Sijilmasi (died 1304) *

Ibn Abi Zar Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī Zarʿ al-Fāsī ( ar, أبو الحسن علي بن أبي زرع الفاسي) (d. between 1310 and 1320) is the commonly presumed original author of the popular and influential medieval history of Morocco known as ...

(died c. 1315) * Abu al-Hassan Ali ibn Mohammed al-Zarwili (died 1319) * Abd al-Haqq al-Badisi (died after 1322) * Ibn Shuayb (died 1349) * Ahmad ibn Ashir al-Ansari (died 1362) *

Ibn Idhari Abū al-ʽAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʽIḏārī al-Marrākushī ( ar, أبو العباس أحمد ابن عذاري المراكشي) was a Moroccan historian of the late-13th/early-14th century, and author of the famous ''Al-Bayan al-M ...

(beginning of the 14th century) *

Ibn Battuta Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battutah (, ; 24 February 13041368/1369),; fully: ; Arabic: commonly known as Ibn Battuta, was a Berbers, Berber Maghrebi people, Maghrebi scholar and explorer who travelled extensively in the lands of Afro-Eurasia, ...

(1304–1377) * Mohammed al-Hazmiri (fl. 1320) *

Ibn Juzayy Abu al-Qasim, Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Muhammad b. 'Abd Allah, Ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi al-Gharnati () was an Andalusian Maliki-Ash'ari scholar and poet of Arab origin. Works He wrote many religious works such as his ''al-Qawanin al-Fiqhiyyah'' or "T ...

(1321–1357) * Abu Muqri Mohammed al-Battiwi (fl. 1331) *

Ibn Abbad al-Rundi Ibn Abbad al-Rundi () (in full, Abu 'abd Allah Muhammad Ibn Abi Ishaq Ibrahim An-nafzi Al-himyari Ar-rundi) (1333–1390) was one of the leading Sufi theologians of his time who was born in Ronda. Attracted to Morocco by the famous madrasahs, Ibn ...

(1333–1390) * Abu Yahya ibn al-Sakkak (1335–1415) * Abd al-Rahman al-Jadiri (1375–1416) *

Ismail ibn al-Ahmar Abū l-Walīd Ismāʿīl ibn Yūsuf Ibn al-Aḥmar () (Granada? 1324/1326 – Fes 1404/1407) was an Andalusian historian of the fourteenth century, the time of the Marinid dynasty.

(1387–1406) *

Abu al-Hasan Ali al-Jaznai Abu al-Hassan Ali al-Jaznai () (who lived in the 14th century) was a Moroccan historian and author of ''Kitab Tarikh madinat Fas, al-maruf bi-Zahrat al-as fi bina madinat Fas'' or simply ''Zahrat al-As'' (''The Myrtle Flower''), an important sourc ...

(14th century)

Thirteenth century

Ibn al-Yasamin Abu Muhammad 'Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Hajjaj ibn al-Yasmin al-Adrini al-Fessi () (died 1204) more commonly known as ibn al-Yasmin, was a Berber mathematician, born in Morocco and he received his education in Fez and Sevilla. Little is known of ...

(died 1204) * Abu Musa al-Jazuli (died 1209) * Ahmad ibn Munim al-Abdari (died 1228) *

Ibn al-Zayyat al-Tadili Abu Yaqub Yusuf Ibn Yahya ibn al-Zayyat al-Tadili () (born in Beni Mellal, died 1229/30) was a sufi mystic, influential jurist and hagiographer from Morocco. He is the biographer of many sufi saints. His best known publication is the ''at-Tashaw ...

(died 1229/30) * Abd al-Rahman al-Fazazi (died 1230) * Ali ibn al-Qattan (died 1231) * Ibn al-Khabbaza (died 1239) *

Abdelaziz al-Malzuzi Abu Faris Abdelaziz ibn Abdarrahman al-Malzuzi al-Miknasi () (born in Meknes, died 1298) is considered to be the greatest poet of the Marinid period.Eugène Guernier, Eugène Léonard Guernier, Georges Froment-Guieysse, ''L'Encyclopédie coloniale ...

(died 1298) * Salih ben Sharif al-Rundi (1204–1285) *

Malik ibn al-Murahhal Malik ibn al-Murahhal () or Abu l-Hakam/Abu l-Mayd Malik ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Ali ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn (al-)Faray ibn (al-)Azraq ibb Saad/Munir ibn Salim ibn (al-)Faray al-Masmudi al-Malaqi al-Sabti (13 August 1207, in Málaga – 10 April 1 ...

(1207–1289) * Abu al-Qasim Qasim ibn al-Shatt (1245–1323) * Ibn abd al-Malik al-Marrakushi (1237–1303) *

Mohammed ibn Hajj al-Abdari al-Fasi Moḥammed ibn al-Hajj al-Abdari al-Fasi (or Mohammed Ibn Mohammed ibn Mohammed Abu Abdallah Ibn al-Hajj al-Abdari al-Maliki al-Fassi; ar, إبن الحاج العبدري الفاسي) also known simply as Ibn al-Haj or Ibn al-Hajj was a Morocca ...

(c. 1256 – 1336) *

Ibn al-Banna al-Marrakushi Ibn al‐Bannāʾ al‐Marrākushī ( ar, ابن البناء المراكشي), full name: Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Azdi al-Marrakushi () (29 December 1256 – 31 July 1321), was a Moroccan polymath who was active as a math ...

(1256–1321) * Mohammed ibn Rushayd (1259–1321) * Abu al-Qasim al-Tujibi (1267/8–1329) * Mohammed ibn Adjurrum (1273–1323) * Abu al-Qasim al-Sharif al-Sabti (1297–1359 AH 697–760) * Abu Ali al-Hasan al-Marrakushi (fl. 1281/2) *

Mohammed al-Abdari al-Hihi Abu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Ali ibn Ahmed ibn Masoud ibn Hajj al-Abdari al-Hihi () (fl. ca. 1289) was a Moroccan travel writer. He was born among the Haha, a Berber tribe in the south of Morocco. He is the author of ''The Moroccan Journ ...

(fl. c. 1289) * Judah ben Nissim (13th century)

Twelfth century

Ibn Bajjah Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyà ibn aṣ-Ṣā’igh at-Tūjībī ibn Bājja ( ar, أبو بكر محمد بن يحيى بن الصائغ التجيبي بن باجة), best known by his Latinised name Avempace (; – 1138), was an A ...

(died 1138) *

Abu Jafar ibn Atiyya Abu Jafar ibn Atiyya (; died 1158) was a writer and vizier who served four Almohad sultans. He produced a manual for writing official letters which continued to be adopted in both Al-Andalus and the Maghreb during the following centuries.Muhammad ...

(died 1158) * Ali ibn Harzihim (died 1163) * Al-Suhayli (1114–1185) * Zechariah Aghmati (1120–1195) *

Abu al-Abbas as-Sabti Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Ja'far al-Khazraji al-Sabti () ( ''Sabta'' 1129 - Marrakesh 1204), better known as Sidi Bel Abbas, was a Moroccan Muslim saint. He is the patron saint of Marrakesh in the Islamic tradition and also one of the " Seven Sain ...

(1129–1204) * Abu al-Abbas al-Jarawi (1133–1212) *

Abd as-Salam ibn Mashish ʻAbd al-Salām ibn Mashīsh al-ʻAlamī ( ar, عبد السلام بن مشيش العلمي) (b. ?–1227), was a Moroccan Sufi saint who lived during the reign of the Almohad Caliphate. Biography Virtually nothing is known about him except t ...

(1140–1227) *

Mohammed ibn Qasim al-Tamimi Al-Tamimi, in full Abu Abd Allah Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Karim al-Tamimi al-Fasi () (born 1140/5, died 1207/8) was a Moroccan Arab hadith scholar and biographer, author of ''Al-Mustafad fi manaqib al-ubbad bi-madinat Fas wa ma ...

(1140/5) *

Ibn Dihya al-Kalby Umar bin al-Hasan bin Ali bin Muhammad bin al-Jamil bin Farah bin Khalaf bin Qumis bin Mazlal bin Malal bin Badr bin Dihyah bin Farwah, better known as Ibn Dihya al-Kalbi ( ar, ابن دحية الكلبي) was a Moorish scholar of both the Ara ...

(1149–1235) *

Mohammed al-Baydhaq Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Ali al Sanhaji al-Baydhaq () (died after 1164) was a Moroccan historian mainly known as a companion of Ibn Tumart and chronicler of the Almohads. Al-Baydhaq (meaning pawn) was his nickname, because he was small in stature. H ...

(c. 1150) * Abu Mohammed Salih (1153–1234) *

Joseph ben Judah of Ceuta Joseph ben Judah ( he, יוסף בן יהודה ''Yosef ben Yehuda'') of Ceuta ( 1160–1226) was a Jewish physician and poet, and disciple of Moses Maimonides. Maimonides wrote his work, the ''Guide for the Perplexed'' for Joseph. Life For th ...

(c. 1160–1226) *

Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi () or in full Abu al-Abbas Ahmad abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Lakhmi al-Sabti (1162–1236) was a religious and legal scholar and member of the Banu al-Azafi who ruled Ceuta in the 13th century. Al-Azafi was an expert i ...

(1162–1236) *

Abdelwahid al-Marrakushi ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿAlī al-Tamīmī al-Marrākushī (; born 7 July 1185 in Marrakech, died 1250) was a Moroccan historian who lived during the Almohad period. Abdelwahid was born in Marrakech in 1185 during the reign of Yaqub al-Mansur, in ...

(born 1185) *

Abu-l-Hassan ash-Shadhili Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili ( ar, أبو الحسن الشاذلي) (full name: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Ḥasanī wal-Ḥusaynī al-Shādhilī) also known as Sheikh al-Shadhili (593–656 AH) (1196–1258 AD ...

(1196–1258) *

Abu Bakr al-Hassar Al-Hassar or Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abdallah ibn Ayyash al-Hassar ( ar, أبو بكر محمد ابن عياش الحصَار) was a 12th-century Morocco, Moroccan mathematician. He is the author of two books ''Kitab al-bayan wat-tadhkar'' (Book of ...

(12th century)

Eleventh century

Abu Imran al-Fasi Abu Imran Musa ibn Isa ibn abi hajj (or hajjaj) al-Fasi () (also simply known as Abu Imran al-Fasi; born between 975 and 978, died 8 June 1039) was a Moroccan Maliki ''faqīh'' born at Fez to a Berber or Arab family whose ''nisba'' is impossible t ...

(died 1038) *

Isaac Alfasi Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi ha-Cohen (1013–1103) ( ar, إسحاق الفاسي, he, ר' יצחק אלפסי) - also known as the Alfasi or by his Hebrew acronym Rif (Rabbi Isaac al-Fasi), was a Maghrebi Talmudist and posek (decider in matters of ...

(1013–1103) * Mohammed ibn Tumart (c. 1080 – 1130) * Qadi Ayyad ben Moussa (1083–1149) * Mohammed al-Idrisi (1099–1165)

Tenth century

* Dunash ben Labrat (920–990) * Judah ben David Hayyuj (945–1000) *

David ben Abraham al-Fasi David ben Abraham al-Fasi ( he, דוד בן אברהם אלפאסי) was a medieval Jewish, Moroccan lexicographer and grammarian from Fez, living in the second half of the 10th century (died before 1026 CE), who eventually settled in the Land o ...

(c. 950 – 1000)

Ninth century

Idriss II Idris bin Idris ( ar, إدريس بن إدريس) known as Idris II ( ar, إدريس الثاني) (August 791 – August 828), was the son of Idris I, the founder of the Idrisid dynasty in Morocco. He was born in Walīlī two months after the de ...

(791–828)

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Abiola Irele Francis Abiola Irele (commonly Abiola Irele, 22 May 1936 – 2 July 2017) was a Nigerian academic best known as the doyen of Africanist literary scholars worldwide. He was Provost at Kwara State University, founded in 2009 in Ilorin, Nigeria. Befo ...

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References

External links

Literatura Marroqui Contemporanea (lexicon of author-biographies in Spanish)

Index of ''The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature'', ed Abiola Irele and Simon Gikandi, 2 vls, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Poetry International Web, ''Morocco''

Abdellatif Akbib, Abdelmalek Essaadi, ''Birth and Development of the Moroccan Short Story'' University, Morocco

* ttp://www.maghrebi-studies.org/newmaghrebistudies.nitle.org/index.php/maghrebi/content/pdf/139.pdf ''Maghreb Arts'', Some Key Figures of Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian literature
Bibliography of sources on Moroccan literature in all languages

In Spanish: ''Enciclopedia GER'', P. Martsnez Montávez, "Marruecos (magrib Al-agsá) VI. Lengua y Literatura."
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