Mohammed al-Ifrani

• Name — Mohammad al-Ifrani • Native Name — محمد الصغير الإفراني • Born — 1669/1670 • Birthplace — Marrakesh, Morocco • Died — c. 1742/1743 • Place of death — Marrakesh, Morocco • Occupation — Historian, Biographer

al-Ifrani was born in 1669/1670 in Marrakesh. His family was from the Ifran tribe, a Shilha Berber tribe of the Draa River basin in the Sous region. He began his studies in his hometown, where he followed the courses of the scholar, Abu al-ʿAbbas Ahmad ibn ʿAli al-Mawasi al-Susi (d. 1718). Then he went to Fez to continue his studies in the al-Qarawiyyin, where he attended the lessons of scholars such as Ahmad ibn Abd el-Hayy al-Halabi and Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿAbd al-Qadir al-Fasi.

Some of his works are: • Nuzhat al-ḥādī bi-akhbār mulūk al-qarn al-ḥādī, a chronicle of the Saadid sultans of Morocco • al-Maslak al-sahl fi sharḥ tawshīḥ Ibn Sahl, a commentary on Tawshīḥ or Muwashshaḥah of the Andalusian poet, Ibn Sahl • Safwat man intashar min akhbār sulaḥāʾ al-qarn al-ḥādi ʿashar, a compilation of biographies of 17th-century Moroccan saints • al-Zill al-warif fī mafākhir Mawlanā Ismāʿīl ibn al-Sharīf (or Rawdat at-tarif), a monograph on the Alaouite sultan of Morocco, Moulay Ismail Ibn Sharif • Durar al-hijal fi ma'athir sabʿat rijāl, a monograph on the Seven Saints of Marrakesh • al-Mu'rib fī akhbār al-Maghrib, a general history of Morocco until his time