List of Moroccan writers

"This list is about writers from Morocco. For writers from Andalusia see after Z."

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In the alphabetical sorting of surnames initial al or el are ignored.

A

*Mohammed ibn Hajj al-Abdari al-Fasi (ca. 1256-1336)
*Mohammed al-Abdari al-Hihi (ca. 1289)
*Abdelkrim al-Khattabi (1882-1963)
*Leila Abouzeid (1950-)
*Abu al-Abbas as-Sabti (1129-1204)
*Abu Imran al-Fasi (d. 1038)
*Mohammed Achaari (1951-)
*Said Achtouk (-1989)
*Leo Africanus (1488-1554)
*Issa Aït Belize
*Lotfi Akalay (1943-)
*Mohammed Akensus (1797-1877)
*Mehdi Akhrif (1952-)
*Mohamed Akoujan
*Mohammed ibn Mohammed Alami (1932-1993)
*Mohammed ibn al-Tayyib al-Alami (-1722/3)
*Idriss ibn al-Hassan al-Alami (1925-2007)
*Kaddour El Alamy (1742-1850)
*Ahmad al-Tayyeb al-Aldj (1928-)
*Isaac Alfasi (1013-1103)
*Tewfik Allal (1947-)
*Idriss al-Amraoui (-1879)
*Najib El Aoufi (1948-)
*Robert Assaraf (1936-)
*Mohammed Awzal (1670-1749)
*Nabil Ayouch (1969-)
*Ayyad ben Moussa (1083-1149)
*Ali Azaykou (1942-2004)

B

*Souad Bahéchar (1953-)
*Latifa Baka (1964-)
*Laarbi Batma (1948 - 1998)
*Mohammed al-Baydhaq (c.1150)
*Ahmed Barakat (1960–1994)
*Hafsa Bekri-Lamrani
*Mohammed Ben Brahim (1918-2005)
*Abdeslam Benabdelali
*Siham Benchekroun
*Ahmed Benchemsi
*Rajae Benchemsi (1957-)
*Halima Ben Haddou (1954-)
*Abdelmajid Benjelloun (1919-1981)
*Abdelmajid Benjelloun (1944-)
*Tahar Ben Jelloun (1944– )
*Abdeslam Ben Mchich (1140-1227)
*Abdelouahid Bennani (1958-)
*Mohammed Bennis (1948-)
*Khnata Bennouna (1940-)
*Mohammed Berrada (1938-)
*Nur ad-Din al-Betrugi (-1204)
*Hafsa Bikri
*Mahi Binebine (1959-)
*Mohammed Ibrahim Bouallou (1934-)
*Ali Bourequat
*Hassan Bourkia (1956-)
*Ahmed Bouzfour
*Al-Yazid al-Buzidi Bujrafi (1925-)

C

*Mohamed Chafik (1926-)
*Nadia Chafik (1962-)
*Mohamed Choukri (1935-2003)
*Driss Chraïbi (1926-2007)

D

*Mohammed Daoud (1901-1984)
*Zakya Daoud (1937-)
*Muhammad al-Arabi al-Darqawi (1760-1823)
*Farida Diouri (1953-)
*Mohammed al-Duayf (1752-)

E

*Youssouf Amine Elalamy (1961-)

F

*Abd al-Rahman al-Fasi (1631-1685)
*Allal al-Fassi (1910-1974)
*Malika al-Fassi (1920-2007)
*Halima Ferhat
*Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali (1549-1621)

G

*Mohammad al-Khammar al-Gannouny (1938-1991)
*Abdelkrim Ghallab (1919-2006)
*Abul Qasim ibn Mohammed al-Ghassani (1548-1610)
*Mohammed ibn abd al-Wahab al-Ghassani (-1700)
*Abdallah al-Ghazwani (-1529)
*Abdullah al-Ghumari (1910-1993)
*Soumya Naâmane Guessous
*Abdallah Guennoun (1910-1989)

H

*Mohammed Aziz El-Hababi (1922-1993)
*Mouna Hachim
*Ali Haddani (1936-2007)
*Badia Hadj Nasser
*Mohammed al-Haik (fl. 1790)
*Allal El Hajjam (1948-)
*Mohammed El Haloui (1923-2004)
*Mohamed Hamri (1932-2000)
*Mohammed al-Harraq (1772-1845)
*David Hassine (1722-1792)
*Sulayman al-Hawwat (1747-1816)
*Ben Salem Himmich (1947-)
*Emmanuel Hocquard (1940-)

I

*Ibn Abi Zar (-ca.1315)
*Ahmad ibn Ajiba (1747-1809)
*Ibn al-Banna al-Marrakushi (1256 – c. 1321)
*Mohammed Ibn Amr (-1827)
*Ibn Bajjah (-1138)
*Ibn Battuta (1304–1377)
*Ali ibn Harzihim (-1163)
*Ibn Idhari (beginning of the 14th century)
*Ahmad ibn Idris al-Fasi (1760-1837)
*Ibn Juzayy (1321-1357)
*Mohammed ibn Rushayd (1259-1321)
*Ibn Shuayb (-1349)
*Mohammed ibn Tumart (c.1080-1130)
*Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Zakur (-1708)
*Ibn Zaydan (1873-1946)
*Ismail ibn al-Ahmar (1387-1406)
*Ibn al-Banna al-Marrakushi (1256-1321)
*Muhammad Ibn al-Habib (1876-1972)
*Ibn al-Khabbaza (-1239)
*Malik ibn al-Murahhal (1207-1300)
*Ahmed ibn Nasir (1647-1717)
*Mohammed ibn Nasir (1603-1674)
*Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi (1553-1616)
*Mohammed ibn al-Tayyib al-Alami (-1722)
*Ibn al-Wannan (-1773)
*Mohammed al-Idrisi (1099-1165)
*Abdellatif Idrissi (1957-)
*Mohammed al-Ifrani (1670-1745)

J

*Mohammed Abed al-Jabri (1936-)
*Salim Jay (1951-)
*Muhammad al-Jazuli (-1465)
*Abderrafi Jouahri (1943-)
*Ahmed Joumari (1939-1995)

K

*Maati Kabbal
*Mohammed Kaghat (1942-2001)
*Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine (1941-1995)
*Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938-)
*Rita el Khayat (1944-)
*Driss El Khouri
*Abdelfattah Kilito (1945-)
*Muhammad ibn Jaafar al-Kittani (-1927)
*Driss Ksikes

L

*Abdellatif Laabi (1942-)
*Mohammed Aziz Lahbabi (1922-1993)
*Leila Lahlou
*Laila Lalami (1968-)
*Wafaa Lamrani (1960-)
*Reda Lamrini
*Abdallah Laroui (1933-)
*Fouad Laroui (1958-)
*Ahmed Lemsih (1950-)
*Mohamed Lkhammar
*Ali Lmrabet (1959-)

M

*Ahmed al-Madini (1949-)
*Abdelaziz al-Maghrawi (ca. 1580-1600)
*Abderrahman El Majdoub (-1569)
*Edmond Amran El Maleh (1917– )
*Abdelaziz al-Malzuzi (-1298)
*al-Zahra al-Mansouri
*Khadija Marouazi (1961-)
*Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari (c. 1591-1632)
*Abdelwahid al-Marrakushi (born 1185)
*Al-Masfiwi
*Thami Mdaghri (-1856)
*Ahmed Mejjati (1936–1995)
*Saida Menebhi (1952-1977)
*Fatima Mernissi (1940-)
*Khireddine Mourad (1950-)
*Mohammed El-Moustaoui (1943-))
*Mohamed Mrabet (1936-)
*Muhammad al-Muqri (1851-1957)

N

*Mririda n’Ait Attik (c.1900-c.1930)
*Driss Nakouri
*Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri (1835-1897)
*Badia Hadj Nasser
*Mohamed Nedali (1962-)
*Mostafa Nissaboury (1943-)

O

*Rachid O (1970-)
*Malika Oufkir (1953-)
*Touria Oulehri
*Mohamed Ousfour

Q

*Mohammed al-Qadiri (1712-1773)
*Bachir Qamari (1951-)

R

*Mubarak Rabi (1940-)
*Fouzia Rhissassi
*Ibn Abbad al-Rundi (1333-1390)
*Salih ben Sharif al-Rundi (1204-1285)
*Mohamed Said Raihani (1968-)

*Mohammed Sabbag (1930-)
*Mohammed Sabila
*Abdeldjabbar Sahimi (1938-)
*Abdelhadi Said (1974)
*Abu Mohammed Salih (1153-1234)
*Amale Samie (1954)
*Tayeb Seddiki (1938)
*Ahmed Sefrioui (1915-2004)
*Mohamed Serghini (1930)
*Abu-l-Hassan ash-Shadhili (1196-1258)
*Abdelhak Serhane (1950-)
*Mohamed Sibari (1945-)
*Mohammed Allal Sinaceur
*Ali Siqli (1932-)
*Abdelghani Skirej
*Al-Suhayli (1114-1185)
*Mohammed al-Suleimani (1862-1926)

T

*Abdelkarim Tabbal (1931-)
*Yusuf al-Tadili (d. 1229/1230)
*Abdellah Taïa (1973-)
*Hemmou Talb (18th century)
*Boutaina Tawil
*Abdelhadi Tazi (1921-)
*Mohamed Azeddine Tazi (1948)
*Abdelkhalek Torres (1910 - 1970)
*Houcine Toulali (1924-1998)
*Ahmed Toufiq (1943-)
*Bahaa Trabelsi (1968)

W

*Tuhami al-Wazzani (1903-1972)

Y

*Said Yaktine
*Nadia Yassine (1958-)
*Abu Ali al-Hassan al-Yusi (1631-1691)

Z

*Mohamed Zafzaf (1942-2001)
*Ahmad Zarruq (1442-1493)
*Abu al-Qasim al-Zayyani (1734/35-1833)
*Abderrahmane Zenati (1943)
*Abdallah Zrika (1953)

List of Moorish writers

Writers from Andalusia, in the period 750-1496, writing in Arabic are generally referred to as Moorish writers. For a part (1085-1238) of that Moorish period, Andalusia and Morocco formed one state. After that (1238 - 1492) the Merinid dynasty of Morocco kept close ties with the Kingdom of Granada.
*Al-Tutili (-1126)
*Ibn Abd Rabbih (860-940)
*Abu Madyan (1126-1198)
*Muhammad Ibn Abbad Al Mutamid (1040-1095)
*Abu Abdullah al-Bakri (1014-1094)
*Ibn al-Kattani (951-1029)
*Ibn al-Khatib (1313-1374)
*Abu al-Qasim (936-1014)
*Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi (-1388)
*Ibn al-Yayyab (1274-1349)
*Ibn Amira (1186-1251/1259)
*Ibn Ammar (c.1031–c.1086)
*Ibn Arabi (1165-1240)
*Ibn Bajjah (Avempace) (-1138)
*Ibn Baqi (-1145 or 1150)
*Moses ibn Ezra (c.1058-c.1138)
*Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021-1058)
*Ibn Hazm (994-1064)
*Ibn Jubayr (1145-1217)
*Ibn Juzayy (1321-1357)
*Ibn Khafaja (1058-1138/9)
*Al-Fath ibn Khaqan (-1134)
*Ibn Rushd (Averroes) (1126–1198)
*Ibn Sahl of Sevilla (1212-1251)
*Ibn Said al-Maghribi (1213-1286)
*Ibn Tufail (1105–1185)
*Ibn Quzman (1078-1160)
*Ibn Zaydun (1003-1071)
*Ibn Zamrak (1333-1394)

ee also

See also: Literature of Morocco

References

*Julie Scott Meisami and Paul Starkey (ed), "Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature", London: Routledge, 1998 (Entry "Maghrib", p. 484)
*"Encyclopedia of African Literature", ed Simon Gikandi, London: Routledge, 2003.
*"The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature", ed Abiola Irele and Simon Gikandi, 2 vls, Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2004. [http://www.gbv.de/du/services/agi/B3F431645C8BC864C1256FCC005937EE/420000136828 Table of contents]
*"Encyclopaedia of Islam", edited by P.J. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W.P. Heinrichs, Brill Publishers 2003
*Otto Zwartjes, Ed de Moor, e.a. (ed.) "Poetry, Politics and Polemics: Cultural Transfer Between the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa", Rodopi, 1996, ISBN 9042001054
*Monroe, J. T., "Hispano-Arabic Poetry During the Almoravid Period: Theory and Practice", Viator 4, 1973, pp. 65-98
*Najala al-Marini, "Al-Sh'ar al-Maghribi fi 'asr al-Mansur al-Sa'di", Rabat: Nashurat Kuliat al-Adab wa al-Alum al-Insania, 1999 (Analysis of the work of the main poets of the age of Ahmed al-Mansour)
*Mohammed Lakhdar, "La vie littéraire au Maroc sous la dynastie 'Alawide", Rabat, 1971
*Jacques Berque, "La Littérature Marocaine Et L'Orient Au XVIIe Siècle", in: "Arabica", Volume 2, Number 3, 1955 , pp. 295-312

External links

*Literatura Marroqui Contemporanea [http://www.literaturamarroqui.edu.es/autores.htm] (lexicon of author-biographies in Spanish)
*Index of "The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature", ed Abiola Irele and Simon Gikandi, 2 vls, Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2004. [http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521594349&ss=ind]
*Poetry International Web, "Morocco" [http://morocco.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_name=morocco]
*Abdellatif Akbib, Abdelmalek Essaadi, "Birth and Development of the Moroccan Short Story", University, Morocco [http://rmmla.wsu.edu/old/54.1/articles/akbib.html]
*Suellen Diaconoff, Professor of French, Colby College: "Women writers of Morocco writing in French", 2005 (Survey) [http://www.colby.edu/personal/s/s_diacon/bibliography.html]
*"Maghreb Arts", Some Key Figures of Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian literature [http://maghrebi-studies.nitle.org/newmaghrebistudies.nitle.org/index.php/maghrebi/literature/key_literature_figures]
*The Postcolonial Web, National University of Singapore, "The Literature of Morocco: An Overview" [http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/morocco/literature/litov.html]
*Bibliography of sources on Moroccan literature in all languages [http://www.literaturamarroqui.edu.es/otros/Fuentes.pdf]
*In Spanish: "Enciclopedia GER", P. Martsnez Montávez, "Marruecos (magrib Al-agsá) VI. Lengua y Literatura." [http://www.canalsocial.net/GER/ficha_GER.asp?id=9387&cat=literatura retrieved on 28 February 2008]