Ahmed al-Mandjur

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Abul-Abbas Ahmad ibn Ali al-Mandjur al-Miknasi al-Fasi (Arabic: أحمد المنجور; 1520–1587, born and died in Fes) was a Moroccan scholar of theology and law and a prominent teacher at the Qarawiyyin University.[1] He is known to have educated qadis for several Moroccan towns. Between 1579 and 1585 he spent much time in Marrakesh, where he taught the Moroccan sultan Ahmad al-Mansur.[2] He is the author of theological commentaries and especially his fahrasa (account of his scholarly career) is of great renown.[3] He was the father of the well-known writer Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ Clifford Edmund Bosworth et al., The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Brill, 1954, entry "al-MANDJUR", p. 406
  2. ^ Mercedes García-Arenal, Ahmad al-Mansur: the beginnings of modern Morocco, 2009, p. 144
  3. ^ cited in the ijazah of Abu Ali al-Hassan al-Yusi, Joseph E. Lowry, Essays in Arabic Literary Biography 1350–1850, 2009, p. 415
  4. ^ Lévi-Provencal, Les historiens du Chorfa, p. 91
  5. ^ Muhamed Hajji, L'activité intellectuelle au Maroc à l'époque Saadide, Rabat, 1976, p. 164–77 passim
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