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Ibn Khafaja

Andalusian Muslim poet (1058–1138/9)

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Andalusian Muslim poet (1058–1138/9)

Field	Value
name	Ibn Khafaja
birth_name	Abu Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ibn Abu al-Fath
birth_date	1058
birth_place	Alzira, Al-Andalus (now Spain)
death_date	1138/1139
occupation	Poet
language	Arabic
nationality	Andalusian

Abu Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ibn Abu al-Fath (1058–1138/9), called Ibn Khafajah (إبن خفاجة), a native of Alzira, was a poet of al-Andalus during the reign of the Almoravids. He was born in 1058 in Alzira (Arabic: جزيرة شقر) near Valencia where he spent most of his life.

He wrote sophisticated nature poetry. He remained unmarried but had many friends and lived to be over eighty.There is a style based on him afterwards followed by many known as 'khafājī'.

His poetry often uses images to a dramatic function, such as contrasting light and darkness, or humanising the night environment.

Composer Mohammed Fairouz set three poems of Ibn Khafajah to music in a cycle of vocal chamber music written for the Cygnus Ensemble.

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Bibliography

Arthur Wormhoudt (ed.), The Diwan of Abu Ishaq Ibn Ibrahim Ibn Abu Al-Fath Ibn Khafaja, Oskaloosa, Ia.: William Penn College, 1987,
Arie Schippers "Ibn Khafaja (1058-1139) in Morocco. Analysis of a laudatory poem addressed to a member of the Almoravid clan," in: Otto Zwartjes e.a. (ed.) Poetry, Politics and Polemics: Cultural Transfer Between the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996, (pp. 13–34)
Magda M. Al-Nowaihi, The Poetry of Ibn Khafajah A Literary Analysis, (Rev. version of the author's thesis, Harvard, 1987), Leiden: Brill, 1993
Burgel, J. C., "Man, Nature and Cosmos as Intertwining Elements in the Poetry of Ibn Khafāja," in: Journal of Arabic literature; vol. 14, 1983 (p. 31)
Hamdane Hadjadji and André Miquel, Ibn Khafaja l’Andalou, L’amant de la nature, Paris: El-Ouns, 2002
Abd al-Rahman Janair, Ibn Khafaja l-Andalusi, Beirut: Dar al-Afaq, 1980

References

Samuel G. Armistead, E. Michael Gerli (ed.), ''Medieval Iberia, an Encyclopedia'', 2003, entry "Ibn Khafaja"
He was the maternal uncle of poet [[Ibn al-Zaqqaq]].María Rosa Menocal, Raymond P. Scheindlin, Michael Anthony Sells, ''The literature of Al-Andalus'', Cambridge University Press, 2000, p. 224
[[Salma Khadra Jayyusi]], "Nature poetry and the rise of Ibn Khafaja," in: Salma Khadra Jayyusi (ed.), ''The legacy of Muslim Spain'', Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994, p. 381
Moore, Thomas (September 12, 2010), [http://www.operatoday.com/content/2010/09/mohammed_fairou.php Mohammed Fairouz: An Interview], ''Opera Today'', retrieved 2011-04-19
Arie Schippers "Ibn Khafaja (1058-1139) in Morocco. Analysis of a laudatory poem addressed to a member of the Almoravid clan," in: Otto Zwartjes e.a. (ed.) ''Poetry, Politics and Polemics: Cultural Transfer Between the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa'', Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996, p. 14

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