Ali ibn Attiya ibn al-Zaqqaq () (c. 1100

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- 1133 or 1134) was one of the great poets of

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during the reign of the Almoravids. He was a Muslim from

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. His mother was the sister of fellow Andalusian poet,

Ibn Khafaja Abu Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ibn Abu al-Fath (1058–1138/9), called Ibn Khafajah (إبن خفاجة), a native of Alzira, was one of the most famous poets of al-Andalus during the reign of the Almoravids.Samuel G. Armistead, E. Michael Gerli (ed.), ''Med ...

, and there is scholarly dispute regarding his father. He was a disciple under philosopher Ibn Ṣîd de Badajoz. The patrons of Ibn al-Zaqqaq were two

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families, a governor, a family of

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dignitaries, probably the supreme Almoravid judge of the East and perhaps the Almoravid ruler

Ali ibn Yusuf Ali ibn Yusuf (also known as "Ali Ben Youssef") () (born 1084 died 26 January 1143) was the 5th Almoravid emir. He reigned from 1106–1143. Biography Ali ibn Yusuf was born in 1084 in Ceuta. He was the son of Yusuf ibn T ...

himself. He wrote mostly panegyric qasidas, in a time where poetry of that kind was quickly leaving patrons' payrolls in other areas of Spain. ''El sueño de Al-Zaqqâq'' by Luis Delgado is a collection of the works of Ibn Al-Zaqqaq set to music.

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Literary historian Emilio García Gómez referred to al-Zaqqaq's descriptive poetry as "the dramatization of metaphor".García Gómez, Emilio. ''Ibn al-Zaqqaq: Poesías''. Madrid, 1956

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*''Ibn al-Zaqqaq al-Balansi'', Trad. Ramon Dachs i Josep Ramon Gregori, ''Robaiyat d'Ibn al-Zaqqaq de València'' (examples of his work plus trl. in Spanis

(retrieved September 15, 2010) *
El Zoco sin compradores. Poesía al Andalus S. XI-XIII
' Modest Solans, Granada. Edición bilingüe, Muret 2018. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ibn al-Zaqqaq 1100s births 1130s deaths 12th-century writers from al-Andalus Poets from al-Andalus Year of birth uncertain Year of death uncertain

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