1036–1057) was an Ifrīqiyan historian, Mālikī jurist and Ashʿarī theologian and traditionist.
His father, Muḥammad, was trained in sharīʿa (law) and ḥadīth (tradition) and wrote a biography of the jurist Abu 'l-Ḥasan al-Qābiṣī.
After studying for a time in the emirate of Sicily, he taught in Kairouan, where al-Māzarī was one of his students.
[2] According al-Dabbāgh, writing over two centuries later, al-Mālikī remained in Kairouan after the Hilālī sack of 1057, when most other scholars decamped to Mahdia.
Al-Mālikī was probably inspired to write by the twin devastations of the Hilālī invasion and the Norman conquest of Sicily.