Mohammed Boujendar

Mohammed Boujendar (1889–1926) was a Moroccan historian and poet.[1] He worked as a translator for the Résidence Générale du Protectorat, published articles for the Arab language weekly As-Sa'ada (Happiness) [2] and was a professor of literature (from 1913) at the Institut des Hautes Études in Rabat.

Some of his books are:

Boujendar was active in organizing literary salons in the 1920s, a tradition that would later be followed by Rabat's Abdallah al-Jirari in the 1930s.[3]

References

  1. Muhammad ibn Abbas Kabbaj, La Littérature Arabe au Maroc, la Bibliothèque Nationale, 1929, p 75
  2. Hespéris Tamuda, Volume 36 , 1998
  3. Mustapha Bourakkadi, "un salon littéraire qui subsiste et perdure", in: Le Matin 15-09-2006 retrieved 15-8-2012


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