Abu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Zakur (; died 1708) was a Moroccan poet, historian and travel writer from

Fes Fez or Fes (; ar, فاس, fās; zgh, ⴼⵉⵣⴰⵣ, fizaz; french: Fès) is a city in northern inland Morocco and the capital of the Fès-Meknès administrative region. It is the second largest city in Morocco, with a population of 1.11 mi ...

. He was a pupil of the school of

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 ...

. He wrote poetry, history, biographies, travel accounts, and books on grammar, rhetoric, law and theology. One of his travel accounts is about a journey he made to Algeria in 1682. His poems were published in a diwan.Brill, ''Encyclopedia of Islam'', vol. III, p. 996

References

*Arthur Wormhoudt (ed. and transl.), ''Selections from the Diwan by Abu 'Abdallah Muhammed ibn Qasim Ibn Zakur'', William Penn College, 1995, *''Poemas selectos de Ibn Zakur'', Lo presenta texto arabe el Profesor Abdul-lah Gannun el Hassani, Publicaciones del Instituto General Franco para la Investigacion Hispano-Arabe, 1945 *Abderahmane El Moudden, "The Ambivalence of Rihla: Community, Integration and Self-Definition in Moroccan Travel Accounts, 1300–1800", in: ''Muslim Travelers: Pilgimage, Migration and the Religious Imagination'', ed. Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990, 69–84 *Viguera, María Jesús, "La "Historia" de Ibn Zakur : (traducción anotada del capítulo sobre los Benimerines)", Madrid : Asociación Nacional de Bibliotecarios, Archivos y, 1974, pp. 515–539 (from: Homenaje a Guillermo Guastavino miscelánea de estudios en el año de su jubilación como director de la Biblioteca Nacional) *Muhammad ibn Qasim Ibn Zakur, ''Al-Sani Al-Badi Fi Sharh Al-Hilliyah Dhat Al-Badi'', Rabat, Moroccan travel writers 17th-century Moroccan poets 18th-century Moroccan historians 1708 deaths People from Fez, Morocco 17th-century Moroccan historians Year of birth unknown 18th-century Moroccan poets {{Morocco-writer-stub