Abu ʾl-Faḍl Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ( AD 1052/3–1139 AH 444–534">Anno_Hegirae.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Anno Hegirae">AH 444–534 was an Al-Andalus">Andalusi Arab">Anno Hegirae">AH 444–534">Anno_Hegirae.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Anno Hegirae">AH 444–534 was an Al-Andalus">Andalusi Arab poet and aphorist from Kairouan. He moved to al-Andalus with his father, Ibn Sharaf, in 1057. He served as a vizier to Muḥammad al-Muʿtaṣim of Almería, Muḥammad al-Muʿtaṣim () of Taifa of Almería, Almería. His works are mainly lost, but he is known to have composed in the

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and gnomic genres of poetry. He penned two collections of aphorisms and maxims in both prose and verse, ''Nujḥ al-nuṣḥ'' and ''Sirr al-birr''. He wrote an ''

urjūza Rajaz (, literally 'tremor, spasm, convulsion as may occur in the behind of a camel when it wants to rise') is a metre used in classical Arabic poetry. A poem composed in this metre is an ''urjūza''. The metre accounts for about 3% of surviving ...

'' on

asceticism Asceticism is a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from worldly pleasures through self-discipline, self-imposed poverty, and simple living, often for the purpose of pursuing Spirituality, spiritual goals. Ascetics may withdraw from the world ...

. A few of his poems are quoted in anthologies and

Ibn Bassām Ibn Bassām or Ibn Bassām al-Shantarīnī (; 1058-1147) was an Arab-Andalusian poet and historian from al-Andalus. He was born in Santarém (sometimes spelled Shantarin or Xantarin) and hailed from the Banu Taghlib tribe. He died in 1147. Ibn ...

preserves a few verses and vizierial letters. He had a son, Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad, who was also a gnomic poet, according to

al-Maqqarī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maqqarī al-Tilmisānī (or al-Maḳḳarī) (), (1577-1632) was an Algerian scholar, biographer and historian who is best known for his , a compendium of the history of Al-Andalus which provided a basis for the schola ...

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