Muhammad al-Qadiri

Who was Muhammad al-Qadiri?

Mohammed ibn al-Tayyib al-Qadiri was a Moroccan historian and author of Nashir al-Mathani. This work is a biographical dictionary of 18th century Morocco, but each year is usually accompanied by a summary of events. In this sense, the form of the book tends toward being both that of a biographical dictionary and a chronicle. Mohammed al-Qadiri is the grandson of the genealogist Abd as-Salam al-Qadiri.

Full title of al-Mathani: Nashr al-mathani li-ahl al-qarn al-hadi 'ashr wa al-thani, Edited by A. Tawfiq and M. Hijji. 4 vols. Rabat, 1977. Partial English translation by N. Cigar. Muhammad al-Qadiri's Nashr al-mathani: The Chronicles. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.

His extensive autobiography with some references to himself and family is in Iltiqat al-durat, ed. Hashim al-Alawi al-Qasimi 449-92. He also composed a catalogue of books, which is unpublished.