Ali ibn Attiya ibn al-Zaqqaq () (c. 1100

Valencia Valencia ( , ), formally València (), is the capital of the Province of Valencia, province and Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, the same name in Spain. It is located on the banks of the Turia (r ...

- 1133 or 1134) was one of the great poets of

Al-Andalus Al-Andalus () was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula. The name refers to the different Muslim states that controlled these territories at various times between 711 and 1492. At its greatest geographical extent, it occupied most o ...

during the reign of the

Almoravids The Almoravid dynasty () was a Berber Muslim dynasty centered in the territory of present-day Morocco. It established an empire that stretched over the western Maghreb and Al-Andalus, starting in the 1050s and lasting until its fall to the Almo ...

. He was a Muslim from

Banu Lakhm The Banu Lakhm () was an Arab tribe best known for its ruling Nasrid, or more commonly, 'Lakhmid', house, which ruled as the Sasanian Empire's vassal kings in the buffer zone with the nomadic Arab tribes of northern and eastern Arabia in the 4th� ...

. His mother was the sister of fellow Andalusian poet,

Ibn Khafaja Abu Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ibn Abu al-Fath (1058–1138/9), called Ibn Khafajah (إبن خفاجة), a native of Alzira, Valencia, Alzira, was a poet of al-Andalus during the reign of the Almoravids.Samuel G. Armistead, E. Michael Gerli (ed.), ''Medie ...

, and there is scholarly dispute regarding his father. He was a disciple under philosopher Ibn Ṣîd de Badajoz. ''El sueño de Al-Zaqqâq'' by Luis Delgado is a collection of the works of Ibn Al-Zaqqaq set to music.

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Literary historian

Emilio García Gómez Emilio García Gómez, 1st Count of Alixares (4 June 1905 – 31 May 1995) was a Spanish Arabist, literary historian and critic, whose talent as a poet enriched his many translations from Arabic language, Arabic. Life Emilio García Góme ...

referred to al-Zaqqaq's descriptive poetry as "the dramatization of metaphor".García Gómez, Emilio. ''Ibn al-Zaqqaq: Poesías''. Madrid, 1956

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*''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 Spanis

(retrieved September 15, 2010) *
El Zoco sin compradores. Poesía al Andalus S. XI-XIII
' Modest Solans, Granada. Edición bilingüe, Muret 2018. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ibn al-Zaqqaq 1100s births 1130s deaths 12th-century writers from al-Andalus Poets from al-Andalus Year of birth uncertain Year of death uncertain

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