Ibn Zaydun
Ibn Zaydun ابن زيدون | |
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| Born | 1003 Cordoba, Caliphate of Córdoba |
| Died | 1071 Seville, Taifa of Seville |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Period | Islamic Golden Age |
Abū al-Walīd Aḥmad Ibn Zaydouni al-Makhzūmī (
He reinvigorated the impassioned lyrics in Arabic by infusing it with more personal and sensual tones of experience. This supposed him to be considered the best of the loving poets of the Muslim Hispania and to become a model for all subsequent Western Arab poetry. His love affair with the princess and poet Wallada bint al-Mustakfi and his exile inspired many of his poems.
Life and Work
Ibn Zayduni was born in 1003 in Cordoba to an aristocratic Andalusian Arab family descended from the Banu Makhzum.[1] He grew up during the decline of the Caliphate of Córdoba and was involved in the political life of his age. He joined the court of the Jahwarid Abu al-Hazm of Cordoba and was imprisoned by him after he was accused of conspiring against him and his patrons.[2]
His relationship with the Umayyad princess Wallada was quickly terminated by Wallada herself. Some attributed this change of heart to Ibn Zayduni's early anti-Umayyad activities, while others mention his rivalry with the rich minister Ibn Abdus, a former friend of Ibn Zayduni, who supposedly gains Wallada's favor and supported her. It is suggested that Ibn Abdus himself was the one who instigated Abu al-Hazm ibn Jahwar against Ibn Zaydun.[3]
He sought refuge with
God has sent showers upon abandoned dwelling places of those we loved. He has woven upon them a striped many-coloured garment of flowers, and raised among them a flower like a star. How many girls like images trailed their garmets among such flowers, when life was fresh and time was at our service...How happy were, those days that have passed, days of pleasure, when we lived with those who had back flowing hair and white shoulders
His romantic and literary life was dominated by his relations with the poet
Notes
- ISBN 0-521-47159-1.
- ISBN 0-415-18571-8.
- ^ Jayyusi, 1992, p. 347.
- ^ L. Alavarez, 1998
- ISBN 0-446-39392-4.
- ISBN 90-04-09738-4.
- ISBN 978-90-04-09599-1
Bibliography
- Ahmad ibn Abd Allāh Ibn Zaydūn, Mahmūd Subh. (1979). Poesias, Instituto Hispano-Árabe de Cultura, ed. University of Virginia.
- Concha Lagos. (1984). Con el arco a punto Instituto Hispano-Arabe de Cultura. University of California. ISBN 84-7472-057-5.
- Sieglinde Lug. (1982). Poetic Techniques and Conceptual Elements in Ibn Zaydūn's Love Poetry, University Press of America (based on the author's thesis).
- Devin J. Stewart, 'Ibn Zaydūn', in The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: The Literature of Al-Andalus, ed. by Maria Rosa Menocal, Raymond P. Scheindlin and Michael Sells (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 306–17.
- S. Jayyusi. (1992). The Legacy of Muslim Spain. pp. 343–351.
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