Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. al-Ḥārith al-Khushanī, or Al-Khushanī of Qayrawān (born Kairouan around the early tenth century CE; died Córdoba, ?981 CE), was an Arab historian, jurist and judge.
However, in 923, following the rise of the Fatamid conquest in Tunisia, al-Khushani fled, like other Maliki scholars at the time.
In Spain, studying especially with Ḳāsim ibn Aṣbagh, he completed his legal training, and gained the patronage of the prince and later caliph in Cordoba, al-Ḥakam II.
Some biographers give 981, but other dates circulated; they 'knew very little information about the last years of his life'.
Titles of works which seem not to have survived but are attributed to al-Khushanī include:[3] Of his surviving works, his biographical studies are most noted: According to Pellat, al-Khushanī was also 'something of a poet (though accused of committing faults here)'.