Ibn Abdallah Mohammed ibn al-Hussein al-Haik (; born in

Tétouan Tétouan ( ar, تطوان, tiṭwān, ber, ⵜⵉⵟⵟⴰⵡⴰⵏ, tiṭṭawan; es, Tetuán) is a city in northern Morocco. It lies along the Martil Valley and is one of the two major ports of Morocco on the Mediterranean Sea, a few miles so ...

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...

) 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 include the musical notation of the songs and is the single most important source on the early tradition of

Classical Andalusian music Andalusi classical music ( ar, طرب أندلسي, ṭarab ʾandalusī; es, música andalusí), also called Andalusi music or Arab-Andalusian music, is a genre of music originally developed in al-Andalus by the Muslim population of the region ...

. It also contains the names of the authors of the poems and melodies. The book has been republished by

Abdelkrim Rais Abdelkrim Rais (Fez 1912 – August 30, 1996) (in Arabic: عبد الكريم الرايس) was a Moroccan writer and musician of traditional Andalusian Music. Known as the ''captain of al-Ala (Andalusian music)'', he was also a Rebab (spiked ...

in 1982.

References

*Songbook of al Haik (1789). Manuscript conserved in the library of the Daoud family in Tétouan

(retrieved 25 August 2008) 18th-century Moroccan poets 18th-century Moroccan writers People from Tétouan 18th-century Moroccan people Moroccan musicians {{Morocco-writer-stub

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