Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali (Arabic: عبد العزيز الفشتالي) (1549 – 1621), fully Abu Faris 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Sanhaji al-Fishtali was a Moroccan writer, head of the chancery (wazīr al-ḳalam al-aʿlā), official historiographer and official poet of the Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur.
He studied under teachers such as Abu al-Abbas al-Manjur, al-Humaydi and al-Zammuri.
[2] He composed most of the pieces of verse which were engraved, on marble or wood, on the façades and inside the pavilions of the El Badii Palace in Marrakech.
His friend and biographer, the historian al-Maqqari, recognized in him the greatest poet of his time and reported that the Moroccan sultan, Ahmad al-Mansur, said: "al-Fishtali made us more illustrious than all the other princes of the earth.
We can compare him to Lisan ed-Din Ibn al-Khatib.