At a glance
- Roles
- Poet · writer
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Maghreb
- Review
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Life in time
Overview
Muhammad ibn al-Jayyib al-'Alami was a Moroccan poet and man of letters of the branch of the Shurafa' 'Alamiyyun, the descendants of the Moroccan saint Abd al-Salam ibn Mashish. 1
Life
He was born and educated at Fez and lived for a while at Meknes, at the court of Mawlay Isma'il. He died at Cairo, on his way to Arabia to perform the pilgrimage, in 1134 or 1135 AH (1721–23 CE). 1
His anthology
His work, al-Anis al-mutrib bi-man laqituhu min udaba' al-Maghrib, is both an anthology of poetry and a compilation on certain technical subjects. It contains much information on Moroccan literary life at the beginning of the 12th/18th century, and was lithographed at Fez in 1315 AH. 1
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Sources
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 1 p. 374
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