Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi explained

For the Egyptian encyclopedist see Shihab al-Din abu 'l-Abbas Ahmad ben Ali ben Ahmad Abd Allah al-Qalqashandi.

Ahmad bin al-Qadi أحمد بن القاضي
Birth Date:	1553
Birth Place:	Meknes, Morocco
Death Date:	1616
Death Place:	Fes, Morocco

Shihab al-Din abu l-‘Abbas Ahmad ibn Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Ahmed ibn Ali ibn 'Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abi'l-'Afiyya al-Miknasi az-Zanati, known simply as Ahmad ibn al-Qadi or Ibn al-Qadi (1552/15531616), was a Moroccan polygraph. He was the leading writer from Ahmad al-Mansur's court in Morocco next to Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali.

Biography

Ahmad ibn al-Qadi was born in Fez in 1552/1553.^[1] His family was called the Ibn al-Qadi, a Berber family that belonged to the Miknasa tribe, a tribe of the Zenata confederation. Their ancestor was the Miknasi tribal chief, Musa ibn Abi al-Afiya. Several members of this family were established in Fez and Meknes. The Ibn al-qadi family gave birth to distinguished people, who, during the previous centuries, had held high political or religious offices and had become famous as islamic scholars.

Works

A number of Ibn al-Qadi's scholarly works survive, including two collections of biographies of great documentary value:

• Al-Muntaqa al-maqsur 'ala ma'athir al-khilafat Abi al-Abbas al-Mansur; his primary work, a panegyric of al-Mansur's great character that qualify him the rightful caliph of Islam.
• Jadwat al Iqtibas Fi-man halla min al'alam madinata fas ('The Torch of learning in the recollection of the most influential notables of the city of Fez')
• Dhīl wafayāt al-'ayān al-musamā<> (Arabic: ذيل وفيات الأعيان المسمى «درة الحجال فى أسماء الرجال»)^[2] Appendix to obituaries of the notable names.

Sources

• Book: Hajji, M.. Al-Zawiya al-Dila'iyya. 1988. 2nd. Rabat. ar. The Zaouia of Dila.
• Encyclopedia: al-Qadi (-ibn) Ahmad ibn Muhammad (historian). 2004. Ma'lamat al-Maghrib (Encyclopedia of Morocco). Mohammed. El Hatimi. 19. Toufiq. Ahmed. al-Jamī‘a al-Maghribiyya li-l-Ta’līf wa-l-Tarjama wa-l-Nashr. Ahmed Toufiq. ar.
• Book: Lévi-Provençal, Évariste. Les historiens des Chorfa: essai sur la littérature historique et biographique au Maroc du XVIe au XXe siècle. Émile Larose. 1922. Larose. Emile. Paris. fr. Évariste Lévi-Provençal.
• Encyclopedia: Ibn al-Qadi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abi al-Afiya (writer). 2004. Ma'lamat al-Maghrib (Encyclopedia of Morocco). Najat. Mrini. 19. Toufiq. Ahmed. al-Jamī‘a al-Maghribiyya li-l-Ta’līf wa-l-Tarjama wa-l-Nashr. Ahmed Toufiq. ar.

Notes and References

1. Book: Lévi-Provençal, Évariste. Les historiens des Chorfa: essai sur la littérature historique et biographique au Maroc du XVIe au XXe siècle. Émile Larose. 1922. Larose. Emile. Paris. 100. fr. Évariste Lévi-Provençal.
2. https://archive.org/details/FP8208/mode/1up Dhīl wafayāt al-'ayān al-musamā <>l