Mohammed ibn al-Tayyib al-Qadiri (; 1712–1773) was a Moroccan historian most known as the author of ''Nashr al-Mathani''. This work is a biographical dictionary of 18th-century Morocco, but each year is usually accompanied by a summary of events. In this sense, the form of the book tends toward being both that of a biographical dictionary and a

chronicle A chronicle ( la, chronica, from Greek ''chroniká'', from , ''chrónos'' – "time") is a historical account of events arranged in chronological order, as in a timeline. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and lo ...

. Mohammed al-Qadiri is the grandson of the genealogist

Abd as-Salam al-Qadiri Abu Mohammed Abd as-Salam al-Qadiri (; 1648–1698) was a historian and genealogist of the Sharifian families of Morocco. He was the grandfather and precursor of the historian Mohammed al-Qadiri (1713–80). He wrote a book about Ahmad ibn Abdulla ...

. Full title of al-Mathani (The Chronicles): ''Nashr al-mathani li-ahl al-qarn al-hadi 'ashr wa al-thani'', Edited by A. Tawfiq and M. Hijji. 4 vols. Rabat, 1977. Partial English translation by N. Cigar. ''Muhammad al-Qadiri's Nashr al-mathani: The Chronicles''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. His extensive

autobiography An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life. It is a form of biography. Definition The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English peri ...

with some references to himself and family is in ''Iltiqat al-durat (wa-mustafad al-mawaiz wa-al-ibar min akhbar wa-ayan al-mia al-hadiya wa-althaniya ashar)'', ed. Hashim al-Alawi al-Qasimi (Beirut: Manshurat Dar al-Afaq al- Jadida, 1983) 449-92. He also composed a catalogue of books (''Al-Fihrisit''), which is unpublished.

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1712 births 1773 deaths 18th-century Moroccan historians Moroccan autobiographers People from Fez, Morocco {{Morocco-writer-stub