Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Zakur

Abu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Zakur (died 1708) was a Moroccan poet, historian and travel writer from Fes. He was a pupil of the school of Abu Ali al-Hassan al-Yusi. He wrote poetry, history, biographies, travel accounts, and books on grammar, rhetoric, law and theology. One of his travel accounts is about a journey he made to Algeria in 1682. His poems were published in a diwan.^[1]

References

1. ↑ Brill, Encyclopedia of Islam, vol. III, p. 996

• Arthur Wormhoudt (ed. and transl.), Selections from the Diwan by Abu 'Abdallah Muhammed ibn Qasim Ibn Zakur, William Penn College, 1995, ISBN 978-0-940307-39-1
• Poemas selectos de Ibn Zakur, Lo presenta texto arabe el Profesor Abdul-lah Gannun el Hassani, Publicaciones del Instituto General Franco para la Investigacion Hispano-Arabe, 1945
• Abderahmane El Moudden, "The Ambivalence of Rihla: Community, Integration and Self-Definition in Moroccan Travel Accounts, 1300–1800", in: Muslim Travelers: Pilgimage, Migration and the Religious Imagination, ed. Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990, 69–84
• Viguera, María Jesús, "La "Historia" de Ibn Zakur : (traducción anotada del capítulo sobre los Benimerines)", Madrid : Asociación Nacional de Bibliotecarios, Archivos y, 1974, pp. 515–539 (from: Homenaje a Guillermo Guastavino miscelánea de estudios en el año de su jubilación como director de la Biblioteca Nacional)
• Muhammad ibn Qasim Ibn Zakur, Al-Sani Al-Badi Fi Sharh Al-Hilliyah Dhat Al-Badi, Rabat, ISBN 9981-59-060-6