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'' entitled "" ''Rithaa' ul-Andalus'' (
Elegy for al-Andalus), 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
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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
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Author
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'' ().
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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