Abdullah al-Kafif az-Zarhuni (Arabic: عبد الله الكفيف الزرهوني; born in Zerhoun - died 1348) was a Moroccan zajal poet in the Marinid period.
Ibn Khaldun states that al-Kafif came from the Sariwa tribe of the Beni Yazgha near Sefrou, and lived in the time of Sultan Abu al-Hasan al-Marini.
This kind of poetry flourished in the Marinid period, and Ibn Khaldun discusses the spread of zajal in the Muqaddimah: "إن أهل فاس وغيرهم استحسنوا هذا الفن، وولعوا به، ونظموا على طريقته، وتركوا الإعراب الذي ليس من شأنهم، وكثر سماعه بينهم، واستفحل فيه كثير منهم Indeed the people of Fes and others improved this art and gave themselves to it, and composed in this style, and abandoned the ʾiʿrab that they didn't care for, and it was heard more among them, and many of them thrived in it.
"[1] And he added, speaking specifically about al-Kafif az-Zarhuni and al-Mala'ba: "An outstanding poet in Zarhun, 1295 in the region of Meknes, close to the present time, was a man known as alKafif (the blind one).
"[4] al-Zarhuni organized his Malaaba on the subject of the military campaign into Hafsid territory, led by Sultan Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman of the Marinid dynasty.