Malik ibn al-Murahhal () or Abu l-Hakam/Abu l-Mayd Malik ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Ali ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn (al-)Faray ibn (al-)Azraq ibb Saad/Munir ibn Salim ibn (al-)Faray al-Masmudi al-Malaqi al-Sabti (13 August 1207, in Málaga – 10 April 1299, in Fez) is considered to be one of the greatest Maghrebi poets of Masmuda.Instituto Hispano-Arabe de Cultura, Literatura y pensamiento marroquíes contemporáneos, 1981, , p. 5 He belonged to a Masmudi family and was born in Málaga, but grew up in CeutaHalima Ferhat, Sabta des origines au xivème siècle, 1993, p. 424 and was the chancellor of Marinid sultans like Abu Yusuf Yaqub.Ed de Moor, Otto Zwartjes, G. J. H. van Gelder, Poetry, Politics and Polemics: Cultural Transfer Between the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, 1996 , p. 67,Shatzmiller, L'Historiographie Merinide: Ibn Khaldun et ses contemporains, 1982 p. 112
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