Kaddour El Alamy

Sidi Kaddour El Alami (Arabic: سيدي قدور العلمي) also transliterated as Qaddur al-Alami (born 1742 in Meknes, died 1850) was a Moroccan poet best known for his songs. His full name was Abd al-Qadir ibn Mohammed ibn Ahmad ibn Abi-l-Qasim al-Idrisi al-Alami al-Hamdani and he was known under the name Sayyidi Qaddur al-Alami at-Talibi al-Abd as-Salami. He was a songwriter in the genre of the malhun and founded the sufi zawiyya Alamin in Meknes, an influential one for the malhun.^[1] He grew up in Meknes.^[2]

References

1. Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Part 20, p.722
2. M.T. Buret, "Sidi Qaddur El Alami", in: Hesperis, 1938 1e tri., pp. 85-90

• J. Jouin, "Un poème de Si Kaddour el 'Alami", in Hesp. 46 (1959), p. 87-103.
• Eugène Aubin, Morocco of To-day, 1906 p. 274
• Abdelmajid Fennich, Dari ya dari (My House, O My House) Play about the life of Sidi El Alami, 2003
• Audio "Tawassolat" (retrieved August 25, 2008)