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

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who wrote in

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. His fame is based on his ''

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'' 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

Biography

He was born in

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in 1204 and fled that town in 1248 and lived in

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until his death in 1285. ar-Rundi wrote a handbook on poetry entitled ''

al-Wafi fi Natham al-Qawafi ''Al-Wafi'' ( ar, الوافي) is a Hadith collection, by Mohsen Fayz Kashani who a scholar in different fields. It includes all traditions in the Four Books of Shia. Author Mohsen Feyz Kashani known as Mulla Muhsin Fayz Kashani was a scholar e ...

'' ().

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 {{Morocco-writer-stub