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Abu l-Walid Ismail Ibn al-Ahmar (1387-1406) was a Moroccan historian of the fourteenth century, the time of the Marinid dynasty.^[1] He was a contemporary of Ibn Khaldoun. Books by Ibn al-Ahmar:

• Rawdat al-nisrin fi dawlat Bani Marin (written in 1404) A defense of Marinid policies, attacking the Abdalwadid of Tlemcen.
• Nafha al-nisriniyya
• Nathir faraid al-djuman fi nazm fuhul al-azam, ed. Muhammad Ridwan al-Daya (Beyrouth 1967)

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1. ^ *L'historiographie mérinide: Ibn Khaldūn et ses contemporains by Maya Shatzmiller, ed. E.J. Brill leiden 1982, Troisième Partie: Le retrait et le retour à l'Historiographie Surveillée. Ibn al-Ahmar (1387-1406), pp. 93-106