Career
He is also well known as an historian. There is little known about his life, besides that he was the court poet of Abu Yahya ibn Abd al-Haqq. Among his many poetical works is a long didactic poem about the history of prophets.
According to Ibn al-Khatib (the biographer of Ibn Abd al-Haqq) First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Malzuzi mixed his Arabic with Zenata elements.
He himself was from the Berber Malzuza tribe of Tripolitania. He died encarcerated, in 1297-1298.
