ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Jaʿfar ibn Bashrūn, called al-Ṣiqillī (the Sicilian), was an
Arabic poet from
Mahdia who spent much of his life in
Sicily. He was a court poet of King
Roger II (1130–1154) and compiled an anthology of verse, ''Al-Mukhtār fī al-naẓm wa-l-nathr li-afāḍil ahl al-ʿaṣr'' (Selected Prose and Verse from the Noblest People of the Age).
The anthology of
ʿImād al-Dīn al-Iṣfahānī
Muhammad ibn Hamed Isfahani (1125 – 20 June 1201) ( fa, محمد ابن حامد اصفهانی), more popularly known as Imad ad-din al-Isfahani ( fa, عماد الدین اصفهانی) ( ar, عماد الدين الأصفهاني), was ...
contains a single ''
qaṣīda'' from a longer poem by Ibn Bashrūn. In his standard fashion, ʿImād al-Dīn cut it short because it was a
panegyric
A panegyric ( or ) is a formal public speech or written verse, delivered in high praise of a person or thing. The original panegyrics were speeches delivered at public events in ancient Athens.
Etymology
The word originated as a compound of grc, ...
for an infidel. It refers to Roger as "king of the Caesars" or "king of imperial kings" (''malik al-mulūk al-qayṣarīya''). The passage selected by ʿImād al-Dīn describes a palace, gardens and a menagerie as indicators of Roger's power:
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People from Mahdia
12th-century Arabic-language poets
12th-century Sicilian people