Al-Tutili Explained

Abu ’l-ʿAbbās (or Abū Dj̲aʿfar) Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hurayra al-ʿUtbī (or al-Kaysī) (died 1126), nicknamed al-Aʿmā al-Tuṭīlī or the Blind Poet of Tudela, was an Andalusian Arab poet who composed in Arabic.^[1] Although born in Tudela, he was raised in Seville, where he gained talent in poetry. He later lived in Murcia. He died young.

Notes

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1. al-Aʿmā means "the blind" and al-Tuṭīlī "the Tudelan".
2. Dar al-Tiraz: Hulwu l-majani is a panegyric on the occasion of the accession of Ali ben Yusuf b. Tashufin to the office of Amir al-Muslimin (Samuel Miklos Stern, Hispano-Arabic strophic poetry:studies, Clarendon Press, 1974, p. 100)
3. Emilio Garcia Gómez, In praise of boys: Moorish poems from al-Andalus, 1975, p.25

Bibliography

• Al-A'ma at-Tutili, Diwan, ed. Ihsan Abbas (Beirut, 1963)
• E. Garzia Gomez, las jarchas romances de la serie árabe en su marco (Madrid 1965)
• Nykl p. 254-6
• al-Acma al-Tutili, [El ciego de Tudela]: Las moaxajas. Traducción y prólogo: M. Nuin Monreal, W. S. Alkhalifa, 2001