For the Egyptian encyclopedist see Shihab al-Din abu 'l-Abbas Ahmad ben Ali ben Ahmad Abd Allah al-Qalqashandi. Ahmad bin al-Qadi أحمد بن القاضي Born| 1553 Meknes, Morocco Died| 1616 Fes, Morocco Moroccan literature * List of writers * Women writers * Moroccan literature * Arabic * Tamazight Moroccan writers * Novelists * Playwrights * Poets * Essayists * Historians * Travel writers * Sufi writers * Moorish writers Forms * Novel * Poetry Criticism and awards * Literary theory * Critics * Literary prizes See also * El Majdoub * Awzal * Choukri * Ben Jelloun * Zafzaf * El Maleh * Chraîbi * Mernissi * Leo Africanus * Khaïr-Eddine * Qamari * Morocco Portal * Literature Portal * v * t * e Shihab al-Din abu l-‘Abbas Ahmad ibn Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Ahmed ibn Ali ibn 'Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abi'l-'Afiyya al-Miknasi az-Zanati (Arabic: ابن القاضي المكناسي), known simply as Ahmad ibn al-Qadi or Ibn al-Qadi (1552/1553–1616), was a Moroccan polygraph. He was the leading writer from Ahmad al-Mansur's court in Morocco next to Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali. He was also a renowned judge and mathematician.[1] ## Contents * 1 Biography * 2 Works * 3 References * 4 Sources ## Biography[edit] Ahmad ibn al-Qadi was born in Fez in 1552/1553.[2] His family was called the Ibn al-Qadi, a Berber family that belonged to the Miknasa tribe, a tribe of the Zenata confederation. Their ancestor was the Miknasi tribal chief, Musa ibn Abi al-Afiya. Several members of this family were established in Fez and Meknes.[2] The Ibn al-qadi family gave birth to distinguished people, who, during the previous centuries, had held high political or religious offices and had become famous as islamic scholars.[2] Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi studied with Abd al-Wahid al-Sijilmasi, the famous Moroccan mufti and Ahmad Baba al Massufi. The jurisdiction of Salé was assigned to him. At the age of 34 he undertook a journey to the east, but his ship was captured by Christian pirates. Ibn al-Qadi spent eleven months in captivity and was released thanks to sultan Ahmad al-Mansur who paid as ransom the equivalent of 20 thousand ounces of gold.[1] ## Works[edit] A number of Ibn al-Qadi's scholarly works survive, including two collections of biographies of great documentary value: * Al-Muntaqa al-maqsur 'ala ma'athir al-khilafat Abi al-Abbas al-Mansur; his primary work, a panegyric of al-Mansur's great character that qualify him the rightful caliph of Islam. * Jadwat al Iqtibas Fi-man halla min al'alam madinata fas ('The Torch of learning in the recollection of the most influential notables of the city of Fez') * Dhīl wafayāt al-'ayān al-musamā<> (ذيل وفيات الأعيان المسمى «درة الحجال فى أسماء الرجال»)[3] Appendix to obituaries of the notable names. ## References[edit] 1. ^ a b See entry 'Shihab al-din Abu l-‘Abbas' in Encyclopædia Britannica France 2. ^ a b c Lévi-Provençal, Évariste (1922). Larose, Emile (ed.). Les historiens des Chorfa: essai sur la littérature historique et biographique au Maroc du XVIe au XXe siècle (in French). Paris: Émile Larose. p. 100. 3. ^ Dhīl wafayāt al-'ayān al-musamā <>l ## Sources[edit] * Hajji, M. (1988). Al-Zawiya al-Dila'iyya [The Zaouia of Dila] (in Arabic) (2nd ed.). Rabat. * El Hatimi, Mohammed (2004). "al-Qadi (-ibn) Ahmad ibn Muhammad (historian)". In Toufiq, Ahmed (ed.). Ma'lamat al-Maghrib (Encyclopedia of Morocco) (in Arabic). Vol. 19\. al-Jamī‘a al-Maghribiyya li-l-Ta’līf wa-l-Tarjama wa-l-Nashr. * Lévi-Provençal, Évariste (1922). Larose, Emile (ed.). Les historiens des Chorfa: essai sur la littérature historique et biographique au Maroc du XVIe au XXe siècle (in French). Paris: Émile Larose. * Mrini, Najat (2004). "Ibn al-Qadi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abi al-Afiya (writer)". In Toufiq, Ahmed (ed.). Ma'lamat al-Maghrib (Encyclopedia of Morocco) (in Arabic). Vol. 19\. al-Jamī‘a al-Maghribiyya li-l-Ta’līf wa-l-Tarjama wa-l-Nashr. Authority control General| * ISNI * 1 * VIAF * 1 * WorldCat National libraries| * Norway * France (data) * Germany * United States * Netherlands * Sweden * Vatican Other| * Social Networks and Archival Context * SUDOC (France) * 1 *[v]: View this template *[t]: Discuss this template *[e]: Edit this template