Muhammad al-Ifrani

محمد الصغير الإفراني

between 1669 and 1670 CE · 1080 AH – c. 1743 CE · c. 1156 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Marrakesh

Muhammad al-Ifrani (1669/1670–c. 1743), in full Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ifrani al-Susi al-Marrakushi and called al-Saghir, was a Moroccan historian and biographer ¹. Born at Marrakesh into the Ifran, a Shilha tribe of the Draa basin, he studied there and then at al-Qarawiyyin in Fes, returned to teach at Marrakesh, and served as imam and khatib of its Yusufi mosque ². His Nuzhat al-Hadi is the standard chronicle of the Saadian sultans, the dynasty of Ahmad al-Mansur; his Safwat man Intashar biographies the saints of seventeenth-century Morocco; he also wrote a monograph on Moulay Ismail and a general history of Morocco ¹. The year of his death at Marrakesh is disputed, with readings from 1742/1743 to 1747 ³.