Al-Tutili

Al-A'ma al-Tutili or Abu l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Abd Allah ibn Hurayra al-Absi al-A'ma al-Tutili (died 1126) was a poet from Al-Andalus. Al-A'ma' means 'the blind one' and 'Tutili' means 'from Tudela'. Al-Tutili was born in Tudela, but he was brought up in Seville and also lived in Murcia. He died at a young age. He was one of the best-known strophic poets and songwriters (Muwashshaha and Zajal) of the Almoravid period in Al-Andalus (1091-1145) and competed with Ibn Bajja in witty compositions at the court of Ibn TIfilwit, the Almoravid governor in Saragossa. He wrote panegyrics to both the Almoravids in al-Andalus [Dar al-Tiraz: Hulwu l-majani is a panegyric on the occasion of the accession of Ali ben Yusuf b. Tashufin to the office of Amir al-Muslimin (Stern 1974, p. 100)] and the Banu Qasim in Alpuente (Al-Sahla) [ Garcia Gómez 1975:25] and was famous for his love poems. Especially well-known is the elegy he wrote on on the death of his wife, whom he invokes by the name of Amina.

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Bibiliography

*Al-A'ma at-Tutili, Diwan, ed. Ihsan Abbas (Beirut, 1963)
*E. Garzia Gomez, las jarchas romances de la serie árabe en su marco (Madrid 1965)
*Nykl p. 254-6
*al-Acma al-Tutili, [El ciego de Tudela] : Las moaxajas. Traducción y prólogo: M. Nuin Monreal, W. S. Alkhalifa, 2001