Moroccan literature respected and prized by the Moroccan rulers down the centuries, have found place into the famous Marrakech Kutubiya Mosque built by the Almohad dynasty of Morocco and the contemporary libraries of Tamegroute and Taroudant.
Literature of Morocco, in the early centuries, focused on songs that comprised religious poetry, elegies and also love poems. Scholars of the period would often pen down the biographies of the contemporary rulers. Two such eminent works are Nuzhat al-hadi bi-akhbar muluk al-qarn al-hadi by Mohammed El Ifrani and the biographic chronicle of Ibn Sahl. Rihla, a detailed travelogue, is composed by the scholar Ahmad Bennacer and constitutes a remarkable part of the literature in Morocco. Hemmou Talb, Muhammad Awzal, Abderrahman El Majdoub and Al-Masfiwi are some of the poets who have left marks of their poetic excellence in the field of poetry.
Modern Morocco literature dates its inception from the 1930s. The writers like Mohamed Choukri, Mohamed Zafzaf, Driss El Khouri and Driss Chraibi breathed new life and spirit into Morocco literature of the modern day. Some renowned critics and theorists whose zeal and love for literature finds reflection in the pages of their writings include Mohammed Barada, Abdullah Laroui, Fatima Mernissi, El Mahdi El mnjra and Abdelkbir Khatibi.
