Ahmed al-Ghazzal or, in full, Abu l-Abbas Ahmed ibn Al-Mahdi al-Ghazzal al-Andalusi al-Maliqi was the secretary of the Moroccan Sultan Mohammed ibn Abdallah (1757–89). Al-Ghazzal is the author of a rihla about his journey to Spain called Natidjat al-iditihad fi l-muhadana wa l-djihad and of a biography of the head of the Isawa religious order, Al-Nur al-Khamil.