5 July 1237 – September 1303) was a Moroccan Arab scholar, historian, judge and biographer.
He is the author of the famous book 'Ad-Dayl wa Takmila', a nine-volume biographical encyclopaedia of notable people from Morocco and al-Andalus.
Born into a notable family of prestigious Arab lineage in Marrakech,[1] hence the nisba, al-Marrakushi.
In 1300, Ibn Abd al-Malik left Marrakech following the court of the Marinid King Abu Yaqub Yusuf an-Nasr and settled in Mansourah, where the Marinids were besieging Tlemcen in an attempt to oust the Abd al-Wadid dynasty.
The latter based much of his biographical book Al-Ihata on the works of Ibn abd al-Malik.