علماء المغرب الأوسط من خلال كتب التراجم المشرقية: كتاب الضوء اللامع لأهل القرن التاسع نموذجا

Abstract EN

The development of nations is measured by the prosperity of their intellectual movement, which is manifested in other fields.

the leaders of such development are primarily the scholars.

middle west area has witnessed many of highly esteemed scholars whose play an important role in the sustainability of the intellectual movement, and they left their fingerprints well graved in the books of general history and bibliographical encyclopedias.

the latter has come to bridge the gap left by the books of general history, by shedding the light on the other sides rather than the political one that was the prime concern before.

the aim the current paper is studying from a statistical point of view the middle west scholars that had lived in ninth century through the classic book "el Daou el Lami Li Ahl al Karn et Tassi” or “ the bright light of people of the ninth century" written by es Sakhaoui.

even though the book is quite large is volume, but it gives a little account of the middle west scholars, in total it contains 112 biography for them over 1470 ones.

the present statistical study has been accomplished using Microsoft Excel software for the sake of better accuracy and to avoid repetitions.