Ahmad ibn Qasim Al-Hajarī
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Ahmad ibn Qāsim Al-Hajarī (Arabic: أحمد بن قاسم الحجري) also known as Al-Hajari, Afoukay, Chihab, Afokai (Arabic: أفوكاي) or Afoqai (Arabic: أفوقاي) (c.1570, Andalusia–c.1640, Tunis), was a Muslim Morisco who worked as a translator in Morocco during the reigns of the Saadi sultans, Ahmad al-Mansur, Zidan Abu Maali, Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik II and Al Walid ibn Zidan.[1] He was later sent as an envoy by Sultan Zidan Abu Maali of Morocco who sent him to France and Netherlands to negotiate the release of some Moriscos who were captured by privateers and thrown on the shores of the mentioned countries.