Ibn Baqi Explained

Ibn Baqi
Birth Name:	Abu Bakr Yahya Ibn Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Rahman Ibn Baqi
Birth Place:	Córdoba or Toledo, Al-Andalus (now Spain)
Death Date:	1145 or 1150
Occupation:	Poet
Language:	Arabic
Nationality:	Andalusian
Notableworks:	Muwashshahat

Ibn Baqi or Abu Bakr Yahya Ibn Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Rahman Ibn Baqi (died 1145 or 1150) was an Arab poet from Córdoba or Toledo in al-Andalus. Baqi is one of the best-known strophic poets and songwriters of Al-Andalus. He moved between Morocco and Al-Andalus and wrote several poems honoring members of a Moroccan family, the Banu Asara, qadis of Salé.^[1] He is especially famous for his muwashshahat.^[2] A considerable number of his poems are in the anthology of Al-Maqqari.

References

1. M.Benjamin, J.T. Monroe, Ten Hispano-Arabic Strophic Songs in the Modern Oral Tradition: Music and Text, 1989, p.2
2. Emilio García Gómez, "Muwassaha de Ibn Baqi de Córdoba: Ma laday sbrun mu'inu, con jarya romance", in: Al-Andalus : revista de las Escuelas de Estudios Árabes de Madrid y Granada, ISSN 0304-4335, Vol. 19, Nº 1, 1954, p. 43

Further reading

• Rachid el Hour, "La indumentaria de las mujeres andalusíes a través de Zahrat al-rawd fi taljis taqdir al-fard de Ibn Baq." in: Tejer y vestir de la Antigüedad al Islam. Ed. Manuela Marín (Estudios árabes e islámicos: Monografías, 1). Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2001. pp. 95–108.

External links

• "The Obituaries of Eminent Men" by Ibn Khallikan (1211–1282), including an example of one of his poems (see nr. 7 Abu Bakr Ibn Baki) https://web.archive.org/web/20101020172417/http://humanistictexts.org/ibn_khallikan.htm(retrieved on 17-2-2008)