Ibn al-Zaqqaq

Not to be confused with Maliki scholar Ali ibn Qasim al-Zaqqaq.

Ali ibn Attiya ibn al-Zaqqaq (Arabic: علي إبن عطيّة إبن الزقّاق البلنسي اللخمي) (c. 1100 Valencia - 1133 or 1134) was one of the great poets of Al-Andalus during the reign of the Almoravids.^[1] He was a Muslim from Banu Lakhm. His mother was the sister of fellow Andalusian poet, Ibn Khafaja, and there is scholarly dispute regarding his father.^[2] He was a disciple under philosopher Ibn Ṣîd de Badajoz.^[3]

Ibn al-Zaqqaq
Born	Ali ibn Attiya ibn al-Zaqqaq c. 1100 Valencia, Al-Andalus (now Spain)
Died	1133 or 1134
Occupation	Poet
Language	Arabic
Nationality	Andalusian

El sueño de Al-Zaqqâq by Luis Delgado is a collection of the works of Ibn Al-Zaqqaq set to music.

Reception

Literary historian Emilio García Gómez referred to al-Zaqqaq's descriptive poetry as "the dramatization of metaphor".^[4]

References

1. James T. Monroe, Hispano-Arabic poetry: a student anthology , p. 39
2. Granja, F. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs, 2012, “Ibn al-Zaḳḳāḳ”
3. Jesús Rubiera Mata, María. "Ibn al-Zaqqaq". Real Academia de la Historia. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
4. García Gómez, Emilio. Ibn al-Zaqqaq: Poesías. Madrid, 1956

Further reading

• Poesías / Ibn Al-Zaqqāq ; edición y traducción en verso [del árabe] de Emilio García Gómez, Publicación Madrid : Instituto Hispano-Arabe de Cultura, 1986

External links

• Ibn al-Zaqqaq al-Balansi, Trad. Ramon Dachs i Josep Ramon Gregori, Robaiyat d'Ibn al-Zaqqaq de València (examples of his work plus trl. in Spanish) (retrieved September 15, 2010)
• El Zoco sin compradores. Poesía al Andalus S. XI-XIII Modest Solans, Granada. Edición bilingüe, Muret 2018. ISBN 978-84-09-00204-7