al-Maqqarī

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Al-Maqqarī or Ahmed Mohammed al-Makkari ( Arabic أبو العباس أحمد المقري, DMG Abū l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad al-Maqqarī ; born before 1591 (according to other sources: 1577) in Tlemcen (today's Algeria ); died January 1632 in Cairo ; Full name: Schihab ad-Din Abu l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Quraschi  /شهاب الدين أبوالعباس أحمد ابن محمد ابن أحمد ابن يحيى القرشي / Shihāb ad-Dīn Abū l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā al-Qurašī ) was an Arab historian .

al-Maqqari traveled back and forth between the Moroccan cities of Fez and Marrakech several times to flee the civil war of the Saadian sultans. In 1618 he also made a pilgrimage to Mecca .

His greatest work is the fragrance of the fresh branch of Andalusia and the biography of his vizier, Lisān ad-Dīn ibn al-Chatīb ( Nafḥ aṭ-ṭīb min ġuṣn al-Andalus ar-raṭīb wa-ḏikr wazīri-hā Lisān ad-Dīn Ibn al-Ḫaṭīb ) which is divided into two parts. The first part is a collection of texts by several authors on the history of Muslims on the Iberian Peninsula and was published by William Wright , Christoph Krehl , Reinhart Dozy and Gustave Dugat . The second part is the biography of the historian, writer and most important vizier of Granada , Ibn al-Khatib (1313–1374). The complete works were published in Bulaq in 1863 and in Cairo in 1885 . Modern Arabic editions of the work comprise eight volumes.

Works in modern editions

  • William Wright, Christoph Krehl, Reinhart Dozy, Gustave Dugat (eds.): Analectes sur l'histoire et la littérature des Arabes d'Espagne. 2 volumes. Brill, Leiden 1855–1861 ( digitized volume 1 in the Google book search).
  • Ahmed ibn Mohammed Al-Makkari: The History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain. Translated into English by Pascual Gayangos y Arce. 2 volumes. Royal Asiatic Society, 1840/1843. Reprint, ed. by Michael Brett: Routledge Curzon, London / New York 2002, ISBN 0-415-29771-0 ( limited preview of volume 1 ; limited preview of volume 2 in the Google book search).

literature

  • Carl Brockelmann : History of Arabic Literature . 2nd volume. Felber, Berlin 1902, p. 296 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Al-Maqqari's "Breath Of Perfumes" , in: Charles F. Horne Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East: Medieval Arabic, Moorish, and Turkish. ISBN 0766100014 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold Hottinger : The Moors: Arab Culture in Spain. Reprint of the 3rd edition. Fink, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7705-3075-6 , p. 13 f.
  2. ↑ Jumada th-thaniyya 1041 AH ; see. Carl Brockelmann : History of Arabic Literature . 2nd volume. Felber, Berlin 1902, p. 296 ( digitized version ).


personal data
SURNAME Al-Maqqarī
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Qurashi, Shihab ad-Din Abu l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yahya al-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Arab historian
DATE OF BIRTH before 1591
PLACE OF BIRTH Tlemcen
DATE OF DEATH January 1632
Place of death Cairo