Abd al-Majid ibn Abdun, or in full Abu Mohammed Abd al-Majid ibn Abdun al-Yaburi عبد المجيد بن عبدون اليابري (c. 1050-1135, died in

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) was a poet from

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. He was the secretary of one of the two kings of the

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(governing in

) Umar ibn Mohammed al-Muwakkil (1078) of the

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Aftasid dynasty The Aftasid dynasty(from the Arabic بنو الأفطس ''Banu-l'Aftas'' or ''Banu al-Aftas'') was a Berber Miknasa dynasty centered in Badajoz (1022–1094) in Al Andalus (Moorish Iberia). History When the Caliphate of Cordoba broke up into the T ...

. When the Aftasid dynasty was defeated and Badajoz conquered by the

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, Ibn Abdun became the secretary of

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and later of his son

Ali ibn Yusuf Ali ibn Yusuf (also known as "Ali Ben Youssef") () (born 1084 died 26 January 1143) was the 5th Almoravid emir. He reigned from 1106–1143. Biography Ali ibn Yusuf was born in 1084 in Ceuta. He was the son of Yusuf ibn T ...

. He wrote a diwan. One of his best known poems is a qasida (elegy) on the downfall of the house of the Aftasids, known as ''al-Qasidah al-bassamah'' or sometimes the ''Abduniyya''.J. Mattock, « Reconsideration of the " Abduniyya"», in: Actas delXII Congreso de la UEAI, Mâlaga 1984, Madrid, Instituto Hispanodrabe de Cultura, 1986, p. 537-558. Ibn Badrun (died 1211), himself a well known poet of Al-Andalus, wrote a lengthy commentary on the poems and prose of Ibn Abdun (''Cup of the Flower and Shell of the Pearl''), translated and edited by

Reinhart Dozy Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy (Leiden, Netherlands, 21 February 1820 – Leiden, 29 April 1883) was a Dutch scholar of French (Huguenot) origin, who was born in Leiden. He was an Orientalist scholar of Arabic language, history and literature. Biogra ...

in 1848.

Footnotes and literature

*''Sharh Qasidat al-wazir al-katib fīl-adab wa-al-maratib li-AbīAbd al-Majid ibn Abdun'', by Abd al-Malik ibn Abd Allah Ibn Badrun; Mahmud Hasan Shaybani; Abd al-Majid ibn Abd Allah Ibn Abdun, ed.: al-Riyad : M.H. al-Shaybanī, 1993. * Abd al-Malik ibn Abd Allah Ibn Badrun, ''Sharh qasidat Ibn Abdun al-marufah bi-al-basamah fīal-tarikh wa-al-adab'', Cairo: Mahbaat al-Saadah, 1921/22 * María José Rebollo Avalos, ''La cultura en el reino Taifa de Badajoz : Ibn Abdun de Evora (m. 530/1135)'', Departamento de Publicaciones de la Excma. Diputación Provincial de Badajoz, 1997 * José Mohedano Barceló, ''Ibn Abdun de Evora, c. 1050-1135 : breve apresentacão e seleccão dos seus poemas'', Evora : Universidade de Evora, 1982.

External links

*James T. Monroe, ''Hispano-Arabic Poetry: A Student Anthology'', Gorgias Press LLC, 2004, pp. 228–24

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