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An Andalusian poet of the Fourteenth Century: Ibn al-Ḥājj
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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There is in the British Museum an Arabic MS (Or. 5670) of some 32 folios entitled Kitāb qarā'in al-qaṣr wa-maḥāsin al-'aṣr fī madḥ amīr al-muslimīn [sic] Abī 'Abd Allāh ibn Naṣr and ascribed to the adīb Ibrāhīm b. 'Abd Allāh b. al-Ḥājj. This ascription arouses no suspicion at first sight, for the kunya of the Nasrid sultan of Granada Muḥammad V was indeed Abū 'Abd Allāh, and there was at his court a poet and littérateur of repute named Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥājj. The description of the MS in the catalogue takes this ascription at its face value. The purpose of this paper is to set forth as much as can be discovered about the poet Ibn al-Ḥājj and his works and to discuss the ascription of the extant fragments bearing his name.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , October 1961 , pp. 57 - 64
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page 57 note 1 The following are the main works used in preparing this paper:
Ibn al-Khaṱīb, Lisān al-Dīn (Muḥammad b. 'Abd Allāh): al-Iḥāṱa fī alchbār Gharnāṱa, ed. 'Inān, Muḥammad 'Abd Allāh, vol. I, Cairo, 1955, pp. 350–71Google Scholar. (An earlier edition, Cairo, 1319/ 1901, I, 193.)
Id.: al-Katība al-kāmina fī-man laqaynāh bi'l-andalus min shu‘arā’ al-mi'a al-thāmina, MS at the National Library, Rabat, No. D 132, ff. 89r.–92r.
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page 57 note 2 This Wādi Āshī (i.e. of Guadix) is doubtless the Abū ‘Abd Allāh quoted several times by Maqqarī, e.g. III, 275 (Analectes, I, 814), vi, 302 (Analectes, II, 831).
page 57 note 3 Jadhwa, 279.
page 58 note 1 González-Palencia (Historia de la literatura arábigo-española, first edition) gives 762/1360, but this is manifestly incorrect. The second edition omits all reference to Ibn al-Ḥājj.
page 58 note 2 For this rebellion see the article byAllouche, I. S. in Hespéris, XXV, 1938Google Scholar.
page 58 note 3 This phrase is itself an editor's emendation for the ilā athar al-mashriq of the MSS.
page 59 note 1 See Rosenthal's article in El, new ed., I, s.v. Birzāli.
page 59 note 2 See GAL, II, 64.
page 59 note 3 Nafḥ, III, 287. For Khalīl see Nayl, 111. Tawzar or Tūzar is a place in south Tunisia,. à la française. Tozeur.
page 59 note 4 GAL, II, 109, Suppl., II, 135.
page 59 note 5 Died 747/1346.
page 60 note 2 Approximately from Shawwāl 749/January 1349 to Sha'bān 753/October 1352 (Brunschvig, , La Berbérie orientate…, I, 169, 176)Google Scholar.
page 60 note 1 ‘Umarī refers to Ibn al-Ḥājj as ‘secretary at the Marinid capital’, so that their encounter must have taken place during Ibn al-Ḥājj's second journey ; and since ‘Umarl died in 749/1348 this second journey must have begun some time before that.
page 61 note 1 Many biographies. The oldest seems to be that of his near-contemporary Ibn al-Zayyāt al-Tādilī in theKitāb al-tashawwuf ilā rijāl al-taṣawwuf, ed. Faure, A., Rabat, 1958Google Scholar.
page 61 note 2 Nayl, 145; Jadhwa, 246.
page 61 note 3 Nafḥ, VIII, 46.
page 62 note 1 The Iḥāṱa's section oil Ibn al-Ḥājj was written between 768/1366 and 772/1370. The first of these dates is given by the episode reported below ; the second by the argument of Muḥammad ‘Inān (Iḥāṱā, 81–2) which shows that Ibn al-Khaṱīb can have added nothing to the Iḥāṱa after this date.
page 62 note 2 In this connexion see Gómez, E. Garcia: Cinco poetas musulmanes, Madrid, 1944Google Scholar, 171 seq.
page 62 note 3 Correct the text of Iḥāṱa, 370, 1. 3 from foot, which has Aḥmad ibn, though a note correctly identifies the bearer of the name.
page 63 note 1 See above, p. 62, n. 1.
page 63 note 2 GAL, II, 226, Suppl., II, 227.
page 64 note 1 Text: al-sulṱān al-muqaddas Abī 'l-Ḥajjāj ibn mawlānā 'l-sulṱān al-Walīd [sic. for Abī 'lWalīd] ibn Naṣr.