Salih ben Sharif al-Rundi
Abu Muhammad Salih b. Abi Sharif ar-Rundi (1204–1285) or Abu-l-Tayyib/ Abu-l-Baqa Salih b. Sharif al-Rundi was a poet, writer, and literary critic from al-Andalus who wrote in Arabic.
Salih ben Sharif al-Rundi
- Died
- 1285 · Ceuta under Muslim rule.
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- Almohad Caliphate
- Occupation
- poet
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Abu Muhammad Salih b. Abi Sharif ar-Rundi (1204–1285) or Abu-l-Tayyib/ Abu-l-Baqa Salih b. Sharif al-Rundi was a poet, writer, and literary critic from al-Andalus who wrote in Arabic.
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His fame is based on his nuniyya entitled "رثاء الأندلس" Rithaa' ul-Andalus (Elegy for al-Andalus), a poem mourning the Catholic invasion and conquest of al-Andalus.
He was born in Sevilla in 1204 and fled that town in 1248 and lived in Ceuta until his death in 1285. ar-Rundi wrote a handbook on poetry entitled al-Wafi fi Natham al-Qawafi (الوافي في نظم القوافي).
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- 1.Ebied, R. Y. ABŪ‘L-BAQĀ’ AL-RUNDĪ AND HIS ELEGY ON MUSLIM SPAIN. The Muslim World. 66. 1. 29–34. January 1976. 0027-4909.
- 2.ترجمة أي الطيب الرُّندي صاحب مرثية الأندلس. saaid.org.
- 3.الدحيلان, عبدالمحسن. مرثية أبي البقاء الرندي في رثاء الأندلس. alyaum. 2018-05-04.
- 4.Rothenberg, Jerome. Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four: The University of California Book of North African Literature. University of California Press. 1995. 978-0-520-27385-6.
- 5.الرندي, ق. 7 هـ. الوافي في نظم القوافي. [s.n.]. 929527481.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Maya Shatzmiller, L'historiographie Mérinide. Ibn Khaldun et ses contemporains, Leiden, 1982
- Abd Allah Kanun, Abu l-Baqa al-Rundi
- Zubair Mohammad Ehsanul Hoque, Elegy for lost kingdoms and ruined cities in Hispano-Arabic poetry article, 2007
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