At a glance
- Roles
- Historian · writer
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Maghreb
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
History-writing and social thought
Place in the story
- HistorianTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Ahmad ibn Mustafa ibn al-Khawja, a historian and writer who lived in Tunis. His full name in the source is al-Hajj Ahmad ibn Mustafa ibn al-Hajj al-Ma'qun. He was a follower of the Hanafi school in Tunis, and he wrote several works. 1
The source says he was born in 1074 AH (1664 CE) and died in 1138 AH (1726 CE). Both dates come from one source and need a second. 1
People and things also explored
Disputing the count of raids and sariyas· Orientalism· Stopping the genealogy at Ma'add· Ibn Khaldun completes the Muqaddima· Abd al-Jabbar al-Jumurd· Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti· Abd al-Rahman Badawi· Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ahmad ibn Mustafa ibn al-Khawja”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ahmad-ibn-mustafa-ibn-al-khawja/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.