Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Zakur

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Abu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Zakur (died in 1708) was a Moroccan travel writer and poet from Fes. He was a pupil of the school of Abu Ali al-Hassan al-Yusi. One of his travel accounts is about a journey he made to Algeria in 1682. His poems were published in a diwan.

[edit] References

• Arthur Wormhoudt (ed. and transl.), Selections from the Diwan by Abu 'Abdallah Muhammed ibn Qasim Ibn Zakur, William Penn College, 1995, ISBN 9780940307391
• Poemas selectos de Ibn Zakur, Lo presenta texto arabe el Profesor Abdul-lah Gannun el Hassani, Publicaciones del Instituto General Franco para la Investigacion Hispano-Arabe, 1945
• Abderahmane El Moudden, "The Ambivalence of Rihla: Community, Integration and Self-Definition in Moroccan Travel Accounts, 1300-1800", in: Muslim Travelers: Pilgimage, Migration and the Religious Imiganiation, ed. Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990, 69-84