Career
Abu l-Abbas Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn al-Qadi al-Miknasi (1553–1616) was the leading writer from Ahmad al-Mansur"s court in Morocco next to Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali. He was also a renowned judge and mathematician. A number of Ibn al-Qadi"s works survive to this day.
His primary panegyric work is entitled First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Muntaqa al-maqsur "ala ma"athir al-khilafat Abi al-Abbas al-Mansur.
He also composed two collections of biographies of great documentary value: Jadwat al Iqtibas Fi-man halla minimum al"alam madinata fas (The Torch of learning in the recollection of the most influential notables of the city of Fez) and Durrat al-hidjāl fī asmā’ al-ridjāl. Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi studied with Abd al-Wahid al-Sijilmasi, the famous Moroccan mufti and Ahmad Baba al-Sudani.
The jurisdiction of Salé was assigned to him. Ibn al-Qadi spent eleven months in captivity and was released thanks to sultan Ahmad al-Mansur who paid as ransom the equivalent of 20 thousand ounces of gold.
