Mohammed Akensus

{{short description|Moroccan historian}}

{{Moroccan literature}}

Mohammed Akensus ({{Langx|ar|محمد أكنسوس|Muḥammad Akanṣūs}}, also known simply as Akensous) or Abu Abdallah Mohammed ben Ahmad Akensus al-Marrakushi (1797, (Sous) - 1877) was a Moroccan historian Mohamed Kholti, Les Plus beaux écrits de l'Union française et du Maghreb, La Colombe, 1947, p. 29Mohamed Lakhdar, La vie littéraire au Maroc sous la dynastie alaouite, Rabat, 1971, p. 355 and a minister under Mulay Slimane and moulay Abd al-Rahman. He is from the Berber tribe of Ida u-Kansus which inhabited the Sous region in southern Morocco.{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Akanṣūs|encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of Islam|publisher=Brill|url=http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/akansus-SIM_0455|last=Lévi-Provençal|first=E|date=|edition=2nd}}

He wrote on the reign of moulay Mohammed ben Abdallah and is the author of Al-Djaish al-aramram (The Great Army), lith. Fas (1918).