Author · Mauritania
Ibn Razqa
Died in 1731
Sidi Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn al-Qadi, known as Ibn Razqa after his mother, was born in Chinguetti, in the Adrar, into a family of scholars: his father, learned in law and the sciences of language, ran a Quranic and scholarly school, a mahadra, which the son took over after him. A master of Arabic rhetoric, on which a treatise is attributed to him, he was in contact with the sultan of Morocco Moulay Ismail and addressed to the scholars of Fez a speech that remained famous. He died around 1731.