Ibn al-Khabbaza

Abu l-Hassan ibn al-Khabbaza (died 1239) was a kadi, historian and poet during the reign of the Almohad sultan Abu al-Ala Idris al-Mamun (r. 1227-32) in Seville, al-Andalus and Marrakesh, Morocco. When the last sultan of this dynasty left Iberia in 1228, Al-Khabazza joined him. Al-Khabazza was the author of poems and a bio-biblio-grahic work.

Fragment from his poem "The King Who Died Young" [English translation from A.J. Arberry, "Moorish Poetry: A translation of The Pennants, an Anthology compiled in 1243 by the Andalusian Ibn Said " (London: Cambridge University Press, 1953)] :

Your life was of the order true

Of Arab eloquence:

The tale was brief, the words were few;

The meaning was immense.

References

*Ildefonso Garijo Galán, Jorge Lirola Delgado, Vicente Carlos Navarro Oltra: "Ibn al-Jabbaza, Abu L-Hasan." "Biblioteca de al-Andalus: de IBN al-Dabbag a IBN Kurz." Almería, Spain. Ed.: Fundación IBN Tufayl de Estudios Árabes. Vol. 1 Pag. 546-547. 2004 ISBN 84-934026-0-5
*"Ibn al-Khabbaza", p. 21 in: "Moorish Poetry: A translation of the Pennants, an Anthology Compiled in 1243 by the Andalusian Ibn Said", Routledge 2001 ISBN 0700714286