- Ibn Zamrak
Ibn Zamrak (also Zumruk) or Abu Abd Allah Muhammad b, Yusuf b. Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Yusuf al-Surayhi, (1333-1394) was a poet and statesman from
Granada ,Al-Andalus . Some his poems still decorate the fountains and palaces ofAlhambra inGranada .He was of humble origin but thanks to his teacher
Ibn al-Khatib he was introduced at the court of theNasrid s. He accompanied sultan Abu Abd Allah Mohammed V toMorocco and when Mohammed was reinstated on the throne inGranada in 1361 he was appointed as his private secretary and a court poet. WhenIbn al-Khatib was dismissed as vizier in 1371, Ibn Zamrak succeeded him and hired a group of assassins to kill him in prison after his arrest inFez . Later, Ibn Zamrak himself was imprisoned for nearly two years by Yusuf II and was assassinated on the orders of Sultan Muhammad VII while he was reading the Quran at home in 1393. [ "Description in Classical Arabic Poetry:Was.f, Ekphrasis, and interarts", by Akiko Motoyoshi Sumi, Brill, 2003, p. 158]Notes
Bibliography
*"Biography of Ibn Zamrak", in: "The Encyclopaedia of Islam".(2), iii, pp. 972-973, article by F. de la Granja
*"The Eye of Sovereignty: Poetry and Vision in the Alhambra's Lindaraja Mirado" by D. Fairchild Ruggles, in: "Gesta", Vol. 36, No. 2, "Visual Culture of Medieval Iberia" (1997), pp. 180-189
*García Gómez, Emilio (1905-1995), "Ibn Zamrak el poeta de la Alhambra", Granada : Patronato de la Alhambra, 1975
*"Le poete vizir Ibn Zamrak: du faubourg d' Al baycine au palais de l'Alhambra", by Hamdan Hadjadji, 2005
*"Ibn Zamrak al-Gharnāṭī, 733-796 H/1333-1393 M : sīratuhu wa-adabuh", by Aḥmad Salīm Ḥimṣī, Bayrūt : Mu'assasat al-Risālah ; Ṭarābulus, Lubnān : Där al-Īmān, 1985.External links
*Poems of the Alhambra [http://www.alhambra.org/eng/index.asp?secc=/alhambra/alhambra_poems]
ee also
Alhmabra, Court of the Lions
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