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Malik ibn al-Murahhal or Abu l-Hakam/Abu l-Mayd Malik ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Ali ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn (al-)Faray ibn (al-)Azraq ibb Saad/Munir ibn Salim ibn (al-)Faray al-Masmudi al-Malaqi al-Sabti (Málaga, 13 August 1207 - Fez, 10 April 1300) is considered to be one of the greatest Moroccan poets.^[1] He belonged to a Masmudi family and was born in Malaga, but grew up in Ceuta ^[2]and was the chancellor of Marinid sultans like Abu Yusuf Yaqub ^{[3] [4]}. He is the author of 24 books among which a panegyric of the Prophet in popular form.

[edit] References

1. ^ Instituto Hispano-Arabe de Cultura, Literatura y pensamiento marroquíes contemporáneos, 1981, ISBN 847472032X , p. 5
2. ^ Halima Ferhat, Sabta des origines au xivème siècle, 1993, p. 424
3. ^ Ed de Moor, Otto Zwartjes, G. J. H. van Gelder, Poetry, Politics and Polemics: Cultural Transfer Between the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, 1996 ISBN 9042001054, p. 67,
4. ^ Shatzmiller, L'Historiographie Merinide: Ibn Khaldun et ses contemporains, 1982 p. 112

• Muhammad b. Jafar al-Kattani, Salwat al-anfas wa-muhadathat al-akyas bi-man uqbira min al-ulema wa-l-sulha bi-Fas, Lith., s vols, 1316, Fez, pp. 99-110
• Abd al-Rahman b. Khaldun, Kitab al-Ibar wa-diwan al-mubtada wa-l-khabar fi ayyam al-Arab wa-l-Ajam wa-l-Barbar, Bulaq ed., VII, pp. 198-200
• José Manuel Continete, "Dos poemas de Malik B. Al-Murahhal, poeta malagueño al servicio de los benimerines",in: Awraq: Estudios sobre el mundo árabe e islámico contemporáneo, ISSN 0214-834X, Nº 2, 1979 , pags. 44-54
• L. Gómez García, Biblioteca de al-Andalus, Volume IV, entry "Ibn al-Murahhal"

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