Abul-Abbas Ahmad ibn Ali al-Mandjur al-Miknasi al-Fasi (
Arabic: أحمد المنجور; 1520–1587, born and died in
Fes) was a Moroccan scholar of theology and law and a prominent teacher at the
Qarawiyyin University.[1] He is known to have educated
qadis for several Moroccan towns. Between 1579 and 1585 he spent much time in
Marrakesh, where he taught the Moroccan sultan
Ahmad al-Mansur.[2] He is the author of theological commentaries and especially his fahrasa (account of his scholarly career) is of great renown.[3] He was the father of the well-known writer
Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi.[4][5]
References
^Clifford Edmund Bosworth et al., The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Brill, 1954, entry "al-MANDJUR", p. 406
^Mercedes García-Arenal, Ahmad al-Mansur: the beginnings of modern Morocco, 2009, p. 144
^cited in the ijazah of
Abu Ali al-Hassan al-Yusi, Joseph E. Lowry, Essays in Arabic Literary Biography 1350–1850, 2009, p. 415