Mohammed Akensus (Arabic: محمد أكنسوس, also Akensous) or Abu Abdallah Mohammed ben Ahmad Akensus al-Marrakushi (1797, (Sous) - 1877) was a Moroccan historian [1][2] and a minister under Mulay Slimane and moulay Abd al-Rahman. He is from the Berber tribe of Ida u-Kansus which inhabited the Sous region in southern Morocco.[3]

He wrote on the reign of moulay Mohammed ben Abdallah and is the author of Al-Djaish al-aramram (The Great Army), lith. Fas (1918).

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  1. ^ Mohamed Kholti, Les Plus beaux écrits de l'Union française et du Maghreb, La Colombe, 1947, p. 29
  2. ^ Mohamed Lakhdar, La vie littéraire au Maroc sous la dynastie alaouite, Rabat, 1971, p. 355
  3. ^ Lévi-Provençal, E. "Akanṣūs". Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.). Brill.
  • Abdelkader Zammama, Al-Waziran ac-cahiban: Ibn Idris wa-Akansus (Les deuz vizirs amis: Ibn Idris et Akensous), Dawat al-Haqq, March 1969