al-anfas, al-Kattānī. Az-zayyani died at the time of the Asr of Sunday 17 November 1833. He would have lived thus ninety-nine years. He was buried, by order of the sultan, in the zawiyya of the Nasiriyya Sufi order, which is in Fes, in the district of es-Siaj. Works We know, thanks to Torjomana, the order in which he wrote these books. Those are: Al-Tarǧumān al-muʻarib ʻan duwal al-mašriq waʾl-maġrib (A general history since the creation of the world until the thirteenth century of the Hijrah) Al-bustan al-jarif fi dawlat awlad mawlay 'ali al-sharif (A history of the Alaouite dynasty) Ad-Durrat as-saniyyat al-faʻiqa fî kachf madhâhib ahl el-bidaʻ min ar-ra-wâfiḍ waʾl-khawârij waʾl-muʻtazila waʾz-zanâdiqa (An urjūza on the heresies of Islam) Alfiyyat as-sulûk fî wafayât al-mulûk (An obituary of a thousand verses rajaz, relating to all Muslim rulers, with a comment) Tuḥfat al-ḥādī al-muṭrib fī rafʻ nasab shurafāʼ al-Maghrib (A genealogy treatise of Maghreb's Ashraf) Risâlat as-sulûk fi-ma yajib ʻalaʾl-mulùk (A political treatise for sovereigns) Riḥlat el-hodhdhâq li-mochâhadat al-buldân waʾl-âfâq (A summary of geography) Jamharat al-tījān wa-fahrasat al-yāqūt wa-al-luʼluʼ wa-al-marjān fī dhikr al-mulūk wa-ashyākh al-Sulṭān al-Mawlá Sulaymān (A fahrasa) Kachf al-asrar fi ʾr-radd ʻala ahl al-bida' al-achrar (A refutation of the heresies of Islam) Notes Bibliography 1730s births 1833 deaths 18th-century Berber people 18th-century Moroccan historians 19th-century Moroccan historians Ambassadors of Morocco to the Ottoman Empire Berber geographers Berber historians Berber poets Berber writers Moroccan autobiographers Moroccan diplomats Moroccan geographers People from Meknes Sanhaja