The Most Famous
HISTORIANS from Morocco
This page contains a list of the greatest Moroccan Historians. The pantheon dataset contains 561 Historians, 1 of which were born in Morocco. This makes Morocco the birth place of the 54th most number of Historians behind Sudan, and North Macedonia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Moroccan Historians of all time. This list of famous Moroccan Historians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Ibn 'Idhari (1300 - 1299)
With an HPI of 58.59, Ibn 'Idhari is the most famous Moroccan Historian. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Abū al-ʽAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʽIḏārī al-Marrākushī (Arabic: أبو العباس أحمد ابن عذاري المراكشي) was a Maghrebi historian of the late-13th/early-14th century, and author of the famous Al-Bayan al-Mughrib, an important medieval history of the Maghreb and Al-Andalus (now the Iberian Peninsula) written in 1312. Ibn Idhāri was born and lived in Marrakech (present-day Morocco), and was a qāʾid ('commander') of Fez. Little is known of his life. His only surviving work, Al-Bayan al-Mughrib, is a history of North Africa from the conquest of Miṣr in 640/1 AD to the Almohad conquests in 1205/6 AD. Its value to modern scholarship lies in its extracts from older works, now lost, and in its material not found elsewhere, including reports of the first Viking raids on Al-Andalus in the ninth century. He mentions another biographic work on the caliphs, imāms and amīrs from across the Islamic world, which has not survived. He died after 1312 / 712 AH.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Moroccan historians born between 1300 and 1300. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Moroccan historians include Ibn 'Idhari.
