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Ibn Muṭarrif Al-Ṭarafī
Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muṭarrif al-Kinānī al-Ṭarafī (born Córdoba, Spain, Cordova 386 AH / 997 CE, d. 454 AH / 1062 CE) was a prominent al-Andalus, Andalusi scholar, noted today particularly for a book of stories about the Islamic prophets. Life According to Ibn al-Jazari, Ibn al-Jazarī, al-Ṭarafī was imām in the Cordova mosque Ṭarafa, and it was this role that gave him his epithet.Roberto Tottoli, 'The ''Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ'' of Ibn Muṭarrif al-Ṭarafī (d. 454/1062): Stories of the Prophets from al-Andalus', ''Al-Qantara'', 19.1 (1998), 131–60. Works Al-Ṭarafī is known to have composed ''Sharḥ qaṣāʾid fī l-qirāʾāt''; ''Kitāb al-Qurṭayn'', which gathers passages from Ibn Qutaybah, Ibn Qutayba's ''Kitāb mushkil al-Qurʾān'' and ''Kitāb ghafīb al-Qurʾān'' and arranges them to be in the same order as the relevant Qurʾān chapters; and an abridgement of the ''Tafsir al-Tabari, Tafsīr al-Ṭabarī''. He is best known t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Córdoba, Spain
Córdoba ( ; ), or sometimes Cordova ( ), is a city in Andalusia, Spain, and the capital of the Province of Córdoba (Spain), province of Córdoba. It is the third most populated Municipalities in Spain, municipality in Andalusia. The city primarily lies on the right bank of the Guadalquivir in the south of the Iberian Peninsula. Once a Colonia (Roman), Roman colonia, it was taken over by the Visigothic Kingdom followed by the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, Muslim conquest in the eighth century. Córdoba became the capital of the Umayyad state of Córdoba, Emirate and then Caliphate of Córdoba, from which the Umayyad dynasty ruled all of al-Andalus until 1031. Under Umayyad rule, Córdoba was transformed into a centre of education and learning, and by the 10th century it had grown to be the second-largest city in Europe. The caliphate experienced a manifold political crisis in the early 11th century that brought about state collapse. Following the Siege of Córdoba ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
