Mohammed al-Ifrani

{{Short description|Moroccan historian}}

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| birth_date = 1669/1670

| birth_place = Marrakesh, Morocco

| death_date = c. 1742/1743

| death_place = Marrakesh, Morocco

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Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ifrānī al-Sūsī al-Marrākushī ({{Langx|ar|محمد الصغير الإفراني}}) (1669/1670{{En dash}}{{Circa|1742/1743}}), called al-Ṣaghīr, was a Moroccan historian and biographer.

Biography

al-Ifrani was born in 1669/1670 in Marrakesh. His family was from the Ifran tribe, a Shilha Berber tribe of the Draa River basin in the Sous region. He began his studies in his hometown, where he followed the courses of the scholar, Abu al-ʿAbbas Ahmad ibn ʿAli al-Mawasi al-Susi (d. 1718). Then he went to Fez to continue his studies in the al-Qarawiyyin, where he attended the lessons of scholars such as Ahmad ibn Abd el-Hayy al-Halabi and Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿAbd al-Qadir al-Fasi.{{Sfn|Lévi-Provençal|1922|p=113}}{{Sfn|Chadli|1984|p=551}}

Works

Some of his works are:{{Sfn|Lévi-Provençal|1922|pp=113-115}}{{Sfn|Chadli|1984|p=551-552}}

  • Nuzhat al-ḥādī bi-akhbār mulūk al-qarn al-ḥādī, a chronicle of the Saadid sultans of Morocco
  • al-Maslak al-sahl fi sharḥ tawshīḥ Ibn Sahl, a commentary on Tawshīḥ or Muwashshaḥah of the Andalusian poet, Ibn Sahl
  • Safwat man intashar min akhbār sulaḥāʾ al-qarn al-ḥādi ʿashar, a compilation of biographies of 17th-century Moroccan saints
  • al-Zill al-warif fī mafākhir Mawlanā Ismāʿīl ibn al-Sharīf (or Rawdat at-tarif), a monograph on the Alaouite sultan of Morocco, Moulay Ismail Ibn Sharif
  • Durar al-hijal fi ma'athir sabʿat rijāl, a monograph on the Seven Saints of Marrakesh
  • al-Mu'rib fī akhbār al-Maghrib, a general history of Morocco until his time

References

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Sources

  • {{Cite book|last=Lévi-Provençal|first=Évariste|title=Les historiens des Chorfa: essai sur la littérature historique et biographique au Maroc du XVIe au XXe siècle|publisher=Émile Larose|year=1922|location=Paris|language=fr|author-link=Évariste Lévi-Provençal}}
  • {{Cite encyclopedia|title=al-Ifrani, Muhammad al-Saghir|year=1984|encyclopedia=Ma'lamat al-Maghrib (Encyclopedia of Morocco)|first=Abdellatif|last=Chadli|volume=2|editor1-last=Toufiq|editor1-first=Ahmed|editor2-last=Hajji|editor2-first=Mohamed|publisher=al-Jamī‘a al-Maghribiyya li-l-Ta’līf wa-l-Tarjama wa-l-Nashr|editor-link=Ahmed Toufiq|language=ar}}

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Category:1740s deaths

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Category:18th-century Berber people

Category:17th-century Moroccan historians

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Category:Berber historians

Category:Berber writers

Category:Moroccan biographers

Category:People from Marrakesh

Category:Shilha people

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