Ibn al-Khabbaza

Abu l-Hassan ibn al-Khabbaza (died 1239) was a kadi, historian and poet active during the reign of the Almohad Sultan Abu al-Ala Idris al-Mamun (r. 1227–32) in Seville, al-Andalus and Marrakesh, Morocco. When the last sultan of this dynasty left Iberia in 1228, Al-Khabazza joined him. Al-Khabazza was also the author of poems and a bio-bibliographic work.

Poetry

A few lines from his poem entitled "The King Who Died Young":[1]

Your life was of the order true

Of Arab eloquence:

The tale was brief, the words were few;

The meaning was immense.

References

  1. English translation from A.J. Arberry, Moorish Poetry: A translation of The Pennants, an Anthology compiled in 1243 by the Andalusian Ibn Said (London: Cambridge University Press, 1953)
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