Mohammed al-Qadiri

{{short description|Moroccan historian}}

{{Redirect|al-Qadiri|the 21st century musician|Fatima Al Qadiri}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Mohammed al-Qadiri

| birth_name = Mohammed ibn al-Tayyib al-Qadiri

| birth_date = 1712

| death_date = {{death year and age|1773|1712}}

| occupation = Historian, writer

| relatives = Abd as-Salam al-Qadiri (grandfather)

}}

{{Moroccan literature}}

Mohammed ibn al-Tayyib al-Qadiri ({{Langx|ar|محمد بن الطيب القادري}}; 1712–1773) was a Moroccan historian most known as the author of Nashr al-Mathani.Dwight Fletcher Reynolds, Kristen Brustad, Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition, Ed. University of California Press, 2001 {{ISBN|978-0-520-22667-8}} p. 278{{Cite book|last1=Vitkus|first1=Daniel J.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=77XC3rocFA4C&q=Mohammed+ibn+al-Tayyib+al-Qadiri&pg=PA44|title=Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England|last2=Matar|first2=Nabil I.|date=2001|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-11905-4|pages=44|language=en}}{{Cite book|last1=Gall|first1=Michel Le|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mGzKAgAAQBAJ&q=Mohammed+ibn+al-Tayyib+al-Qadiri&pg=PA210|title=The Maghrib in Question: Essays in History and Historiography|last2=Perkins|first2=Kenneth|date=2010-07-05|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=978-0-292-78838-1|pages=210|language=en}}{{Cite book|last1=Boum|first1=Aomar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=glgzDAAAQBAJ&q=Mohammed+ibn+al-Tayyib+al-Qadiri&pg=PA412|title=Historical Dictionary of Morocco|last2=Park|first2=Thomas K.|date=2016-06-02|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-4422-6297-3|pages=412|language=en}} This work is a biographical dictionary of 18th-century Morocco, but each year is usually accompanied by a summary of events. In this sense, the form of the book tends toward being both that of a biographical dictionary and a chronicle. Mohammed al-Qadiri is the grandson of the genealogist Abd as-Salam al-Qadiri.

Full title of al-Mathani (The Chronicles): Nashr al-mathani li-ahl al-qarn al-hadi 'ashr wa al-thani, Edited by A. Tawfiq and M. Hijji. 4 vols. Rabat, 1977. Partial English translation by N. Cigar. Muhammad al-Qadiri's Nashr al-mathani: The Chronicles. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.

His extensive autobiography with some references to himself and family is in Iltiqat al-durat (wa-mustafad al-mawaiz wa-al-ibar min akhbar wa-ayan al-mia al-hadiya wa-althaniya ashar), ed. Hashim al-Alawi al-Qasimi (Beirut: Manshurat Dar al-Afaq al- Jadida, 1983) 449-92. He also composed a catalogue of books (Al-Fihrisit), which is unpublished.