Kaddour El Alamy

Sidi Kaddour El Alami (born 1742 in Meknes, died 1850) is one of Morocco's best known poets. He was a songwriter in the genre of the malhun and founded the sufi zawiyya Alamin in Meknes. ["Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics", Part 20, p.722 ] This zawiyya became one of the centres from which the malhun would spread. Some of El Alami's best known songs are "El Farradjia" (also known as "Ya Krim") and "El meknassia".

References

*J. Jouin, "Un poème de Si Kaddour el 'Alami", in "Hesp." 46 (1959), p. 87-103.
*Eugène Aubin, "Morocco of To-day", 1906 p. 274
*Abdelmajid Fennich, "Dari ya dari" (My House, O My House) Play about the life of Sidi El Alami, 2003
*Audio "Tawassolat" [http://boomp3.com/listen/autt4h5_p/tawassolat] (retrieved August 25, 2008)