Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi
Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi | |
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| Native name | ابن سعيد المغربي |
| Born | 1213 Alcalá la Real, Granada, Al-Andalus |
| Died | 1286 Tunis |
| Occupation | Geographer, Historian, Poet |
| Notable works | Al-Mughrib fī ḥulā al-Maghrib (The Extraordinary Book on the Adornments of the West) |
Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Mūsā ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī (Arabic: علي بن موسى المغربي بن سعيد) (1213–1286),[1] also known as Ibn Saʿīd al-Andalusī,[2] was an Arab[3] geographer, historian, poet, and the most important collector of poetry from al-Andalus in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Biography
Ibn Said was born at Qal'a Benī Sa'īd (modern day Alcalá la Real) near Granada to a prominent family which was descended from the Companion of the Prophet Ammar ibn Yasir.[4] Many of his family members were literary figures,[5] and grew up in Marrakesh. He subsequently studied in Seville and stayed in Tunis, Alexandria, Cairo, Jerusalem and Aleppo. At the age of 30, he undertook a pilgrimage to Mecca.[6] He was also a close friend of the Muwallad poet Ibn Muqana al-Ushbuni. His last years were spent in Tunis, and he died there in 1286.[7]
Writings
Ibn Said al-Maghribi wrote or compiled 'at least forty works on various branches of knowledge'.[8] Ibn Said's best known achievement was the completion of the fifteen-volume al-Mughrib fī ḥulā l-Maghrib ('The Extraordinary Book on the Adornments of the West'), which had been started over a century before by Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥijārī (1106–55) at the behest of Ibn Said's great-grandfather ‘Abd al-Malik. Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥijārī completed 6 volumes, ‘Abd al-Malik added to them; two of ‘Abd al-Malik's sons (Ibn Said's grandfather and great uncle) added more; Ibn Said's father worked on it further; and Ibn Said completed it.[9] The work is also known as the Kitāb al-Mughrib ('book of the Maghrib'), and is midway between an anthology of poetry and a geography, collecting information on the poets of Maghreb organized by geographical origin.[10] Ibn Said's works that are probably preserved only fragmentarily, in quotation by others, include Al-Ṭāli‘ al-Sa‘ı̄d fı̄ Tārı̄kh Banı̄ Sa‘ı̄d, a history of the Banū Sa‘ı̄d.[11] An example of Ibn Said's own poems, which he included in the Rāyāt al-mubarrizīn wa-ghāyāt al-mumayyazīn, is "Black horse with a white chest", with a recent translation being Cola Franzen's translation into English of Gómez's 1930 Spanish translation:[12]
Other works
- المقتطف من أزاهر الطرف
Notes
- ↑ Fernandes, Maria Alice; Abdallah Khawli; Luís Fraga da Silva (2006-12-12). "A viagem de Ibn Ammâr de São Brás a Silves" (PDF) (in português). Associação Campo Arqueológico de Tavira. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-11-20. Retrieved 2007-12-16.
- ↑ Arberry, [transl. by] A.J. (2001). Moorish poetry : a translation of the pennants, an anthology compiled in 1243 by the andalusian ibn sa'id (Repr. ed.). Surrey: Curzon. ISBN 978-0-7007-1428-5.
- ↑ Hill, Richard Leslie (1967). A Biographical Dictionary of the Sudan. Psychology Press. ISBN 9780714610375.
- ↑ Ch., Pellat (24 April 2012). "Ibn Saʿīd al-Mag̲h̲ribī".
- ↑ Rāyāt al-mubarrizīn wa-ghāyāt al-mumayyazīn/The Banners of the Champions: An Anthology of Medieval Arabic Poetry from Andalusia and Beyond, selected and translated by James A. Bellamy and Patricia Owen Steiner (Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1989), p. xxii.
- ↑ Rāyāt al-mubarrizīn wa-ghāyāt al-mumayyazīn/The Banners of the Champions: An Anthology of Medieval Arabic Poetry from Andalusia and Beyond, selected and translated by James A. Bellamy and Patricia Owen Steiner (Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1989), p. xxii.
- ↑ Rāyāt al-mubarrizīn wa-ghāyāt al-mumayyazīn/The Banners of the Champions: An Anthology of Medieval Arabic Poetry from Andalusia and Beyond, selected and translated by James A. Bellamy and Patricia Owen Steiner (Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1989), p. xxii.
- ↑ Rāyāt al-mubarrizīn wa-ghāyāt al-mumayyazīn/The Banners of the Champions: An Anthology of Medieval Arabic Poetry from Andalusia and Beyond, selected and translated by James A. Bellamy and Patricia Owen Steiner (Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1989), p. xxi.
- ↑ Rāyāt al-mubarrizīn wa-ghāyāt al-mumayyazīn/The Banners of the Champions: An Anthology of Medieval Arabic Poetry from Andalusia and Beyond, selected and translated by James A. Bellamy and Patricia Owen Steiner (Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1989), p. xxi.
- ↑ "Ibn Said: Book of the Maghrib, 13th Century". Internet Medieval Source Book. Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies. Retrieved 2007-12-16.
- ↑ Marlé Hammond, 'He said "She said": Narrations of Women's Verse in Classical Arabic Literature. A Case Study: Nazhuūn's Hijā’ of Abū Bakr al-Makhzūmī', Middle Eastern Literatures, 6:1 (2003), 3-18 (p. 7). doi:10.1080/14752620306884.
- ↑ Gómez, translated by Cola Franzen from the Spanish versions of Emilio García (1989). Poems of Arab Andalusia. San Francisco: City Lights Books. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-87286-242-5.
External links
- Geographia, in Arabic
- Excerpt from the Book of the Maghrib, in English
- Excerpt from Kitab al-Bast, in French. [Relations de voyages et textes géographiques arabes, persans et turks relatifs à l’Extrême-Orient du VIIIe au XVIIIe siècles: traduits, revus, et annotés, tr. Gabriel Ferrand (Paris: E. Leroux, 1913), i, 316ff.]
References
- Ali Ibn Musa Ibn Said al-Magribi und sein Werk al-Gusun al-yaniafi mahasin su ara al-miça as-sabia by M. Kropp, in: Islam (Der) Berlin, 1980, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 68–96 (2p.)
- His history of the world and Islamic literature: ms. Escorial 1728. edition by Ibrahim al-Ibyari (2 vol.), Cairo 1968
- Arberry, [transl. by] A.J. (2001). Moorish poetry : a translation of the pennants, an anthology compiled in 1243 by the andalusian ibn sa'id (Repr. ed.). Surrey: Curzon. ISBN 978-0-7007-1428-5.
- The Banners of the Champions of Ibn Said al-Maghribi, translated by James Bellamy and Patricia Steiner (Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1988)