Ahmad ibn al-Qadi or Ibn al-Qadi,(December 18, 1552 –
December 6, 1616), fully Shihab al-Din abu l-‘Abbas Ahmad ibn Mohammed ibn
Mohammed ibn Ahmed ibn Ali ibn 'Abd er-Rahman ibn Abi'l-' Afiyya el-Miknasi
ez-Zanati, was the leading writer from Ahmad al-Mansur's court in Morocco next
to Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali. He was also a renowned judge and mathematician.
Ahmad ibn al-Qadi was born in 18 December 1552 in the Ibn al-qadi family.
These latter belonged to the Zenata Berber tribal confederation, many of whose
descendants were established in Fez and Meknes. The ibn al-qadi family gave
birth to distinguished people, who, during the previous centuries, had held
high political or religious offices and had become famous as islamic scholars.
Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi studied with Abd al-Wahid al-Sijilmasi, the famous
Moroccan mufti and Ahmad Baba al Massufi. The jurisdiction of Salé was assigned
to him. At the age of 34 he undertook a journey to the east, but his ship was
captured by Christians. Ibn al-Qadi spent eleven months in captivity and was
released thanks to sultan Ahmad al-Mansur who paid as ransom the equivalent of
20 thousand ounces of gold.
Works
A number of Ibn al-Qadi's works survive to this day. His primary panegyric
work is entitled Al-Muntaqa al-maqsur 'ala ma'athir al-khilafat Abi al-Abbas
al-Mansur. This work consists mainly of a meditation upon the great character
qualities of al-Mansur which, the scholar argues, showed him to be the rightful
caliph of Islam. He also composed two collections of biographies of great
documentary value: Jadwat al Iqtibas Fi-man halla min al'alam madinata fas (The
Torch of learning in the recollection of the most influential notables of the
city of Fez) and Durrat al-hidjāl fī asmā’ al-ridjāl.
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