Abdelaziz al-Maghrawi

Abu Faris abd al-Aziz al-Maghrawi was a Moroccan poet and the first known author of a qasida written in malhun. He was one of the poets of the court of the Saadian sultan Ahmad al-Mansur (1578-1602). He is still well known in Morocco. His name is preserved in the proverb "Nothing that is long is of interest except the palmtree and al-Maghrawi". One of his best known poems is "Chafett Aïni Ya Raoui".

References

*A. A. Dellaï, "Chansons de La Casbah' ', p. 12
*M. Th.Houtsma, "E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936", p. 603
*Saïd El Meftahi, "L'art du Melhoun, son histoire, ses richesses" [http://www.yabiladi.com/pdf/index.php?cat=musique&id=14] p. 3
*Abu Ali al-Ghawthi, "Kashf al-Kina an Alat al-Sima", Algiers 1904, p. 49-93