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Abu-l-'Abbas Ahmad ibn Mohammed al-Maqqari, or
Al-Makkari (c.
1591 -
1632), was an
historian born
Tlemcen in present-day
Algeria.
After an early training in
Tlemcen, al-Maqqari moved to Fez in Morocco and then to Marrakech, following the court of
Ahmad al-Mansur, to whom he dedicated his Rawdat al-As (The garden of Myrtle) about the
ulemas of Marrakech and Fes. After al- Mansur's death in 1012/1603, al-Maqqari established himself in
Fes, where he was appointed both as mufti and as the imam of the
Qarawiyyin mosque by al-Mansour's successor
Zidan Abu Maali in 1618, but he'd to leave Fez in that same year, probably because of the civil war between the
Saadian sultans. He then made the
pilgrimage to Mecca.
In the following year he settled in
Cairo. In
1620 he visited
Jerusalem and
Damascus, and during the next six years made the pilgrimage five times. In 1628 he was again in Damascus, where he gave a course of lectures on
Bukhari's collection of
Traditions, spoke much of the glories of
Muslim Spain, and received the impulse to write his work on this subject later. In the same year he returned to Cairo, where he spent a year in writing his history. He was just making preparations to settle definitely in Damascus when he died.
His greatest work,
The Breath of Perfume from the Branch of Green Andalusia and Memorials of its Vizier Lisan ud-Din ibn ul-Khattb, consists of two parts. The first is a compilation from many authors on the description and history of Muslim Spain; it was published by
Wright, Krehl,
Reinhart Dozy and Dugat as
Analectes sur l'histoire et la littérature des Arabes d'Espagne (
Leiden, 1855-1861), and in an abridged English translation by
P de Gayangos (London, 1840-1843). The whole work has been published at Bulaq (1863) and Cairo (1885).
For other works of Maqqari see
Carl Brockelmann's
Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (Berlin, 1902), ii. 297.
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