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Abu al-Qasim al-Zayyani Ibn Ahmad, was a Berber statesman and historian from Morocco (1734/35-1833).^[1] He undertook diplomatic missions to the Ottoman court and engineered government attempts to bring tribes under central authority. His writings include several historical accounts of the Ottoman and Alaouite dynasties.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Amira K. Bennison Jihad and its interpretations in pre-colonial Morocco, Routledge, 2002, ISBN 0700716939, p. 36

[edit] Bibliography

• Dwight Fletcher, Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literacy Tradition, University of California Press, 2001
• Al-Tarjamana al-kubrd, Fedala, Muhammadiyya, 1967
• Al-bustan al-zarif fi dawlat awlad mawlay 'ali al-sharif (MS. D 1577, Bibiohèque Générale Rabat) translation E. Fumay as Chronique de la dynastie alaouie du Maroc, Archives Marocaines IX and X (1906-7)
• Al-turjuman al-mu'rib 'an duwal al-mashriq wa'l-maghrib, edition and partial translation (1886) by O. Houdas, Le Maroc de 1631 à 1812

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