• Source: Kaddour El Alamy

Sidi Kaddour El Alami (Arabic: سيدي قدور العلمي) also transliterated as Qaddur al-Alami (born 1742 in Meknes, died 1850) was a Moroccan poet best known for his songs. His full name was Abd al-Qadir ibn Mohammed ibn Ahmad ibn Abi-l-Qasim al-Idrisi al-Alami al-Hamdani and he was known under the name Sayyidi Qaddur al-Alami at-Talibi al-Abd as-Salami. He was a songwriter in the genre of the malhun and founded the sufi zawiyya Alamin in Meknes, an influential one for the malhun. He grew up in Meknes.




References



J. Jouin, "Un poème de Si Kaddour el 'Alami", in Hesp. 46 (1959), p. 87-103.
Eugène Aubin, Morocco of To-day, 1906 p. 274
Abdelmajid Fennich, Dari ya dari (My House, O My House) Play about the life of Sidi El Alami, 2003
Audio "Tawassolat" [1] (retrieved August 25, 2008)

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