Mohammed al-Ifrani

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ifrānī al-Sūsī al-Marrākushī (Arabic: محمد الصغير الإفراني) (1669/1670–c. 1742/1743), called al-Ṣaghīr, was a Moroccan historian and biographer.

Mohammad al-Ifrani
Born	1669/1670 Marrakesh, Morocco
Died	c. 1742/1743 Marrakesh, Morocco
Occupation(s)	Historian, 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.^[1][2]

Works

Some of his works are:^[3][4]

• 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