| In 1628 he was again in Damascus, where he continued his lectures on 's collection of 'Traditions' , and spoke much of the glories of , and received the impulse to write his work on this subject later | |
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| On al-Mansur's death in 1603, al-Maqqari established himself in Fes, where he was appointed both as mufti and as the imam of the by al-Mansour's successor, | A complete Arabic edition was published at 1863 , Cairo 1885 and 1968 |
Al-Maqqari's "Breath Of Perfumes", in: Charles F.
17| That year he returned to Cairo and spent a year in writing his history of Spain from material he had mainly collected at the library in Marrakesh— surviving MSS [ ] are now held in part at , near | Online: in Arabic See also [ ]• ; ii a biography of |
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| In 1620 he visited and , and made five pilgrimages over six years | The History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain |
Life [ ] A native of and from a prominent intellectual family originally from the village of , near in Algeria.