Ibn Zaydun

*God has sent showers upon abandoned dwelling places of those we loved. He has woven upon them a striped many-coloured garment of flowers, and raised among them a flower like a star. How many girls like images trailed their garmets among such flowers, when life was fresh and time was at our service...How happy were, those days that have passed, days of pleasure, when we lived with those who had back flowing hair and white shoulders* His romantic and literary life was dominated by his relations with the poet Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, the daughter of the Umayyad Caliph Muhammad III of Cordoba. According to Jayyusi in her book The Legacy of Muslim Spain, "Ibn Zayduni brought into Andalusi poetry something of balance, the rhetorical command, the passionate power and grandeur of style that marked contemporary poetry in the east...he rescued Andalusi poetry from the self-indulgence of the poets of externalized description." ==Notes== ==Bibliography== *Ahmad ibn Abd Allāh Ibn Zaydūn, Mahmūd Subh. (1979). *Poesias*, Instituto Hispano-Árabe de Cultura, ed. University of Virginia. *Concha Lagos. (1984). *Con el arco a punto* Instituto Hispano-Arabe de Cultura. University of California. . *Sieglinde Lug. (1982). *Poetic Techniques and Conceptual Elements in Ibn Zaydūn's Love Poetry*, University Press of America (based on the author's thesis). * Devin J. Stewart, 'Ibn Zaydūn', in *The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: The Literature of Al-Andalus*, ed. by Maria Rosa Menocal, Raymond P. Scheindlin and Michael Sells (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 306–17. *S. Jayyusi. (1992). *The Legacy of Muslim Spain*. pp. 343–351. [[Category:1003 births]] [[Category:1071 deaths]] [[Category:11th-century people from al-Andalus]] [[Category:11th-century Arab people]] [[Category:Poets from al-Andalus]] [[Category:Writers from Córdoba, Spain]] [[Category:Banu Makhzum]] [[Category:11th-century Arabic-language poets]]