Click on
the following links to see key pages from one of the Rabat General Library's
copies of Mohammed Hajoui's book on Leo Africanus ( all pages are in Arabic):
Hajoui's business card
Hajoui's inscription dedicating his
book to the Pacha des Glaouis
Title page 1
Title page 2
First page
Second page
Third page
Fourth page
Photo of manuscript of Leo's Arab-Hebrew-Latin
vocabulary
Leo's signature
Hajoui's
Business Card:

The author's business card was affixed to one of four copies of his book
currently conserved at the Bibliotheque Generale de Rabat:
Mohammed Mehdi el Hajoui
Juge au haut
tribunal cherifien (judge in the high cherifien court)
Born in Fes, El Hajoui was part of a very prestigious Moroccan family.
His father was minister of Justice, and he was governor of Oujda for 17
years. During the protectorate he sided with the French, but remained
governor of Oujda after independence, before he retired to Fes (this information
can be found in : Dictionnaire des celebrites marocaines, etabli
et coordonne par Mohammed Hajji, 1996)
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