Hemmou Talb

Hemmou Talb (Tachelhit: Ḥemmu Eṭṭaleb) is an 18th-century composer of poems in the Tashelhit language of southwestern Morocco.

In the Tashelhit Berber oral tradition, he is also known as Bab n Umareg, "the Master of Poetry", and a great number of poems still recited today are ascribed to him.

Among the highlanders of the great range, a little learning goes a long way, and the man who can decipher the chapter of the day easily passes for a sage".

Amarir[6] discusses the various proposals made earlier by Stumme and Johnston, and concludes that the poet most probably flourished in the second half of the 18th century.

Amarir states that according to his sources, Sidi Ḥammu is buried in or near the tomb of Mawlāy Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad al-Amghārī, a Sufi saint who died in 1661 CE, in the town of Moulay Brahim which is named after him.