Al-Fath ibn Khaqan (al-Andalus)

Life

Ibn Khāqān was born in either Alcalá la Real or Seville. He received an elite education and travelled widely across al-Andalus. Described as a 'libertine' and yet he was appointed secretary to the Almoravid governor of Granada Abū Yūsuf Tāshfīn ibn ‘Alī; a post he abandoned almost immediately to travel to Marrakesh where sometime later he was murdered, it was rumoured, on the orders of the sultan. He died on 11 November 1134.

The main sources for his biography are:

• Ibn KhallikanWafayāt al-A’yān wa-Anbā’ Abnā’ al-Zamān (tr. Obituaries of Eminent Men}
• Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Diyha al-KalbīAl-Mutrib fī Ash’ār Ahl il-Mughrib
• Al-Ṣafadī*Al-Wāfī bi-'l-wafayāt *

Works

• Qalā'id al-'Iqyān (قلائد العقيان) ‘Collars of Gold’ or 'Necklace of Rubies'; akhbar (traditions) of poets of the Maghreb and al-Andalus, who were his contemporaries with examples of their poems.
• Maṭmaḥ al-anfus wa-masraḥ al-taʼannus fī mulaḥ ahl al-Andalus (مطمح الأنفس ومسرح التأنس في ملح أهل الأندلس) (Kābir, Wāsiṭ, Saghīr Large, Medium, Small) 'The Aspiration of the Souls and the Theater of Congeniality in the Anecdotes of the People of al-Andalus'; History of the ministers, scribes and poets of al-Andalus. These two works are written in rhymed prose full of metaphorical expressions and are an excellent source of information about the apogee of Andalusian letters.

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1. "al-Qaysi" refers to the [[Banu Qays]] tribe; "al-Ishbili" means "from [[Seville]]"
2. Waleed Saleh, [https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/51571/ibn-jaqan "Ibn Jaqan"], ''[[Diccionario Biográfico Español]]'' (2018).
3. Al-Fatḥ ibn Khāqān, Abū Naṣr al-Qaysī al-Ishbīlī. (2007). "Qalā'id al-'Iqyān".
4. ''Qalaid al-Iqyan'' ed., Muhammad al-Tahir Ibn Ashur, 1990, {{ISBN. 978-9973-12-145-5
5. Al-Fatḥ ibn Khāqān, Abū Naṣr al-Qaysī al-Ishbīlī. (1983). "Maṭmaḥ al-anfus wa-masraḥ al-taʼannus fī mulaḥ ahl al-Andalus". Shar Suriyya.