Ibn Zamrak

Ibn Zamrak (Arabic: ابن زمرك) (also Zumruk) or Abu Abduallah Muhammad ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Surayhi, (1333–1393) was an Arab^[1] Andalusian poet and statesman from Granada, Al-Andalus. Some his poems still decorate the fountains and palaces of Alhambra in Granada.^[2]

Ibn Zamrak
Born	1333 Granada, Al-Andalus
Died	1393
Occupation	Poet, Statesman
Nationality	Andalusian
Notable works	Poems decorating the Alhambra

See also

• Court of the Lions

Sources

1. Studies in Islam: Quarterly Journal of the Indian Institute of Islamic Studies. 1968. p. 191.
2. Description in Classical Arabic Poetry:Was.f, Ekphrasis, and interarts, by Akiko Motoyoshi Sumi, Brill, 2003, p. 158

• "Biography of Ibn Zamrak", in: The Encyclopaedia of Islam.(2), iii, pp. 972–973, article by F. de la Granja
• "The Eye of Sovereignty: Poetry and Vision in the Alhambra's Lindaraja Mirado" by D. Fairchild Ruggles, in: Gesta, Vol. 36, No. 2, Visual Culture of Medieval Iberia (1997), pp. 180–189
• García Gómez, Emilio (1905-1995), Ibn Zamrak el poeta de la Alhambra, Granada : Patronato de la Alhambra, 1975
• Le poete vizir Ibn Zamrak: du faubourg d' Al baycine au palais de l'Alhambra, by Hamdan Hadjadji, 2005
• Ibn Zamrak al-Gharnāṭī, 733-796 H/1333-1393 M : sīratuhu wa-adabuh, by Aḥmad Salīm Ḥimṣī, Bayrūt : Mu'assasat al-Risālah ; Ṭarābulus, Lubnān : Där al-Īmān, 1985.

External links

• Poems of the Alhambra