Ahmed Mohammed Al-Maqqari

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abu-l-'Abbas Ahmad ibn Mohammed al-Maqqari, or Al-Makkari, was an historian born in 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 ...