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Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Isa Abd al-Malik ibn Isa ibn Quzman al-Zuhri (; 1087–1160) was the single most famous poet in the history of
Only 149 poems from the ''Diwan'' of Ibn Quzman appear in a manuscript in Saint Petersburg, which was the subject of a notice published in 1881. A facsimile edition of it titled ''Le Divan d'Ibn Guzman'' was published in 1896 in Berlin by Baron David von Günzburg.
Most of the extant poems are zajals, the genre by which he earned his fame which are characterized by their colloquial language, as well as a typical rhyming scheme: aaab cccb dddb, where b rhymes with a constantly recurring refrain of one or two lines.Gorton, T.J., "The Metre of IbnQuzman: a "Classical"Approach", ''Journal of Arabic Literature'', 6 (1975), pp. 1-29 As noted by James T. Monroe,
His approach to life as expressed in these melodious poems, together with their mixed idiom (occasionally using words of the Romance languages), shows a resemblance to the later vernacular troubadour poetry of France.Robert Kehew, Ezra Pound, William De Witt Snodgrass, ''Lark in the morning: the verses of the troubadours'', University of Chicago Press, 2005, p.10
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. *A Middle East Studies Association conference was held in Anchorage, Alaska, 2003. *M. Th Houtsma, ''First encyclopaedia of Islam: 1913-1936'
First Encyclopaedia of Islam: 1913-1936
(retrieved 36-09-2011) *"Cancionero de Abenguzmán" in ''Enciclopedia GER'' (in Spanish
''Le Divan d'Ibn Guzman''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ibn Quzman 1087 births 1160 deaths Writers from Córdoba, Spain Poets from al-Andalus Andalusi Arabic Muslim poets
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 ...
and he is also considered to be one of its most original. One of the characteristics of his poetry was "satire, verging on the licentious, aimed at religious experts." He deeply admired his "Eastern predecessor" Abu Nuwas.
Life
He was born and died in Cordoba during the reign of the Almoravids, to a family of possibly Gothic origins, while according to certain scholars he was from an Arab family. as his name suggests and from the fact that he described himself as being blond and blue-eyed in several of his zajals . After leading a lifestyle similar to that of troubadours, traveling toSeville
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, Granada
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and Jaén, he became a mosque imam towards the end of his life.
''Diwan''
Only 149 poems from the ''Diwan'' of Ibn Quzman appear in a manuscript in Saint Petersburg, which was the subject of a notice published in 1881. A facsimile edition of it titled ''Le Divan d'Ibn Guzman'' was published in 1896 in Berlin by Baron David von Günzburg.
Most of the extant poems are zajals, the genre by which he earned his fame which are characterized by their colloquial language, as well as a typical rhyming scheme: aaab cccb dddb, where b rhymes with a constantly recurring refrain of one or two lines.Gorton, T.J., "The Metre of IbnQuzman: a "Classical"Approach", ''Journal of Arabic Literature'', 6 (1975), pp. 1-29 As noted by James T. Monroe,
His approach to life as expressed in these melodious poems, together with their mixed idiom (occasionally using words of the Romance languages), shows a resemblance to the later vernacular troubadour poetry of France.Robert Kehew, Ezra Pound, William De Witt Snodgrass, ''Lark in the morning: the verses of the troubadours'', University of Chicago Press, 2005, p.10
Translations
The ''Diwan'' has been translated in Spanish by Federico Corriente (under the title ''Cancionero hispanoárabe'') and in English by Monroe.References
Further reading
*Menocal, María Rosa (EDT) /Scheindlin, Raymond P., "The Literature of Al-Andalus" (''The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature'') ch. 14, (EDT) /Sells, Michael /Publisher: Cambridge Univ Press, 2000 *Dr. Bonnie D. Irwin Dean, "Cooking With Ibn Quzman: Kitchen Imagery in Azjal nos. 90, 68, and 118." Philological Association of the Pacific Coast Conference. Portland, 13 November 1988. *Artifara, n. 1, (luglio - dicembre 2002), sezione AddendLa beauté des feux d'artifices dans les séries Netflix , Parlons des feux d'artifices, les artifices et effets spéciaux utilisés pour vous faire rêver !
. *A Middle East Studies Association conference was held in Anchorage, Alaska, 2003. *M. Th Houtsma, ''First encyclopaedia of Islam: 1913-1936'
First Encyclopaedia of Islam: 1913-1936
(retrieved 36-09-2011) *"Cancionero de Abenguzmán" in ''Enciclopedia GER'' (in Spanish
External links
''Le Divan d'Ibn Guzman''
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