Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali

Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali (Arabic: عبد العزيز الفشتالي‎) or al-Fistali (b. 1549 – d. 1621), fully Abu Mohammed or Abu Faris 'Abd el-'Aziz ben Mohammed ben Ibrahim es-Sanhaji al-Fishtali was the Moroccan secretary of state for correspondence and leading poet from Ahmad al-Mansur's court.[1] al-Fishtali was a native of the Beni Mellal region. al-Fishtali wrote 69 poems, numbering 1016 verses.[2] The one surviving work of al-Fishtali, as the chief scribe of al-Mansur's state is: Manahil al-safa fi ma'athir mawalina al-shurafa (مناهل الصفا في أخبار الملوك الشرفا). It is considered to be the main source of information for the dynasty of Ahmad al-Mansur.

References

1. J. D. Fage, Roland Anthony Oliver The Cambridge History of Africa, ed. Cambridge University Press, 1986, ISBN 978-0-521-20413-2, p. 629
2. Roger Allen ed., Arabic literature in the post-classical period.,Cambridge University Press, 2006, p.62