ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book represents some of the earliest Moroccan historical texts that do not simply reflect the official court version of dynastic history. Historians believe that the first of these, entitled Trkh al-dawla al-Sa'diyya al-Takmadrtiyya, was written in the mid-eleventh/seventeenth century by an anonymous scholar in Fez. The book devotes to defending the Sa'd's claim to sharifian ancestry, which 'Alaw propagandists had questioned when setting forth their dynasty's own claims. Al-Ifrn devotes the largest part of his text to describing the glorious reign of Amad al-Manr. In this effort, he frequently references the works of Sa'd writers, some of which are now lost. As mentioned earlier, al-Ifrn's systematic and orderly approach, coupled with the difficulties that modern scholars have had in accessing contemporary sources, has long made him the recognized authority on the Sa'd dynasty.
