Ibn Baqi

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Ibn Baqi (

Arab poet from Córdoba or Toledo in al-Andalus. Baqi is one of the best-known strophic poets and songwriters of Al-Andalus. He moved between Morocco and Al-Andalus and wrote several poems honoring members of a Moroccan family, the Banu Asara, qadis of Salé.[1] He is especially famous for his muwashshahat.[2]
A considerable number of his poems are in the anthology of
Al-Maqqari
.

References

  1. ^ M.Benjamin, J.T. Monroe, Ten Hispano-Arabic Strophic Songs in the Modern Oral Tradition: Music and Text, 1989, p.2
  2. ^ Emilio García Gómez, "Muwassaha de Ibn Baqi de Córdoba: Ma laday sbrun mu'inu, con jarya romance", in: Al-Andalus : revista de las Escuelas de Estudios Árabes de Madrid y Granada, ISSN 0304-4335, Vol. 19, Nº 1, 1954 , p. 43

Further reading

  • Rachid el Hour, "La indumentaria de las mujeres andalusíes a través de Zahrat al-rawd fi taljis taqdir al-fard de Ibn Baq." in: Tejer y vestir de la Antigüedad al Islam. Ed. Manuela Marín (Estudios árabes e islámicos: Monografías, 1). Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2001. pp. 95–108.

External links

  • "The Obituaries of Eminent Men" by Ibn Khallikan (1211–1282), including an example of one of his poems (see nr. 7 Abu Bakr Ibn Baki) [1](retrieved on 17-2-2008)