Ibn Zurayq al-Baġdādī
Abu al-Hasan Ali Abu Abdullah ibn Zuraiq al-Baghdadi (died 420 AH/1029 AD) was an Iraqi poet active in al-Andalus. Ibn Zurayq al-Baġdādī was born in Baghdad, Ibn Zuraiq grew up in the Abbasid Caliphate. Little is known about his early life, but he gained recognition for his poetic talent.
Also recorded as Ibn Zurayq, ʻAlī · Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī
Ibn Zurayq al-Baġdādī
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- Ibn Zurayq al-Baġdādī died on 1 January 1029. · al-Andalus.
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Abu al-Hasan Ali Abu Abdullah ibn Zuraiq al-Baghdadi (died 420 AH/1029 AD) was an Iraqi poet active in al-Andalus. Ibn Zurayq al-Baġdādī was born in Baghdad, Ibn Zuraiq grew up in the Abbasid Caliphate. Little is known about his early life, but he gained recognition for his poetic talent.
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Faced with economic hardship, Ibn Zuraiq left his homeland in pursuit of better opportunities in al-Andalus, seeking prosperity through his poetic endeavors. According to accounts, a single poem was discovered with his body. Ibn Zuraiq's poetry reflected themes of love, longing, and the human condition. His verses were characterized by their elegance, depth, and emotional resonance, garnering admiration from contemporaries and subsequent generations of poets. His Qaṣīda al-Andalusiyya was praised by Ibn Hazm "as a means of achieving perfect elegance if memorized". An example of his poetry is this short encomium on Baghdad, "Baghdad's People": • I have traveled far to find a parallel for Baghdad • and her people—my task was second to despair. • Alas, for me Baghdad is the entire world, • her people—the only genuine ones. The Bahraini author Ahmad Al Dosari has written a historical novel based on the life of Ibn Zuraiq, entitled Ibn Zuraiq Al Baghdadi: A Passenger of Time.
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Ibn Zurayq al-Baġdādī was born at Baghdad.
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- 1.Kennedy, Hugh N. The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century. Longman. 1986. 978-0-582-49313-1.
- 2.Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary Translated from the Arabic by Bn. Mac Guckin De Slane: Paris Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1843. 1843.
- 3.Aziz, Aqil. History of the Arabs From the Earliest Times to the Present by Philip K. Hitti. Philip K Hitti.
- 4.Sells, Michael Anthony. Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Qurʼan, Miraj, Poetic and Theological Writings. Paulist Press. 1996. 978-0-8091-3619-3.
- 5.Florian Sobieroj, Variance in Arabic Manuscripts: Arabic Didactic Poems from the Eleventh to the Seventeenth Centuries—Analysis of Textual Variance and Its Control in the Manuscripts (De Gruyter, 2016), pp. 107–125, contains a full analysis of this poem.
- 6.Reuven Snir (ed.), Baghdad: The City in Verse (Harvard University Press, 2013), p. 139. The love poem "Moon over Baghdad" is on pp. 137–138.
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