Ibn Zamrak () (also Zumruk) or Abu Abduallah Muhammad ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Surayhi, (1333–1393) was an

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Andalusian poet and statesman from

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. Some his poems still decorate the fountains and palaces of

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in Granada. He was of humble origin but thanks to his teacher Ibn al-Khatib he was introduced at the court of the Nasrids. He accompanied Sultan Abu Abd Allah Mohammed V to

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and when Mohammed was reinstated on the throne in Granada in 1361 he was appointed as his private secretary and a court poet. When Ibn al-Khatib was dismissed as vizier in 1371, Ibn Zamrak succeeded him and hired a group of assassins to kill him in prison after his arrest in

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. Later, Ibn Zamrak himself was imprisoned for nearly two years by Yusuf II and was assassinated on the orders of Sultan Muhammad VII while he was reading the

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at home in 1393.''Description in Classical Arabic Poetry:Was.f, Ekphrasis, and interarts'', by Akiko Motoyoshi Sumi, Brill, 2003, p. 158

Sources

* "Biography of Ibn Zamrak", in: ''The Encyclopaedia of Islam''.(2), iii, pp. 972–973, article by F. de la Granja * "The Eye of Sovereignty: Poetry and Vision in the Alhambra's Lindaraja Mirado" by D. Fairchild Ruggles, in: ''Gesta'', Vol. 36, No. 2, ''Visual Culture of Medieval Iberia'' (1997), pp. 180–189 * García Gómez, Emilio (1905-1995), ''Ibn Zamrak el poeta de la Alhambra'', Granada : Patronato de la Alhambra, 1975 * ''Le poete vizir Ibn Zamrak: du faubourg d' Al baycine au palais de l'Alhambra'', by Hamdan Hadjadji, 2005 * ''Ibn Zamrak al-Gharnāṭī, 733-796 H/1333-1393 M : sīratuhu wa-adabuh'', by Aḥmad Salīm Ḥimṣī, Bayrūt : Mu'assasat al-Risālah ; Ṭarābulus, Lubnān : Där al-Īmān, 1985.

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1333 births 1393 deaths 14th-century Arabs Poets of Al-Andalus {{Al-Andalus-poet-stub

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