Abdelaziz al-Maghrawi

Abu Faris abd al-Aziz al-Maghrawi (d. 1605) 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 p. 3
• Abu Ali al-Ghawthi, Kashf al-Kina an Alat al-Sima, Algiers 1904, p. 49-93