Abu Muhammad Salih b. Abi Sharif ar-Rundi () (or Abu-l-Tayyib/ Abu-l-Baqa Salih b. Sharif al-Rundi) was a poet, writer, and literary critic from
al-Andalus
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who wrote in
Arabic
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. His fame is based on his ''
nuniyya
A ''nūniyya'' ( ar, نُونِيَّة, plural ) is an Arabic poetic form in which each line ends with an n sound, coming either from the letter (nun) or from nunation. This creates the consonant rhyme scheme of the poem.
Among the most fam ...
'' entitled "" ''Rithaa' ul-Andalus'' (
Elegy for al-Andalus
''Rithā’ al-Andalus'' (, variously translated as "An Elegy to al-Andalus" or "Elegy for the fall of al-Andalus"), also known as ''Lament for the Fall of Seville'', is an Arabic ''qaṣīda nūniyya'' which is said to have been written by Anda ...
), a poem mourning the Catholic invasion and conquest of
al-Andalus
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.
Biography
He was born in
Sevilla
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in 1204 and fled that town in 1248 and lived in
Ceuta
Ceuta (, , ; ar, سَبْتَة, Sabtah) is a Spanish autonomous city on the north coast of Africa.
Bordered by Morocco, it lies along the boundary between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It is one of several Spanish territorie ...
until his death in 1285. ar-Rundi wrote a handbook on poetry entitled ''
al-Wafi fi Natham al-Qawafi'' ().
References
Sources
*Maya Shatzmiller, L'historiographie Mérinide. Ibn Khaldun et ses contemporains, Leiden, 1982
*Abd Allah Kanun, ''Abu l-Baqa al-Rundi
**Zubair Mohammad Ehsanul Hoque, ''Elegy for lost kingdoms and ruined cities in Hispano-Arabic poetry'' article, 2007
External links
*Lament for the Fall of Seville (1267), by Abu al-Baqa al-Rundi English translation with footnotes by James T. Monro
*Performance of Qasida by Al-Rundi (YouTube
(retrieved, 23-11-2010)
13th-century Arabic poets
1204 births
1285 deaths
People from Seville
13th-century Moroccan writers
13th-century Al-Andalus writers
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