At a glance
- Roles
- Vizier · Poet · writer
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
- OfficialTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu al-Qasim Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Zuhri al-Qurtubi, known as al-Ifliili. A vizier and one of the imams of language and literature in al-Andalus, from Cordoba. His nisba refers to a village in Syria where his forebears are said to have lived. He was born in 352 AH (963 CE) and died in 441 AH (1049 CE). 1
Both dates rest on one source and need an additional source.
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Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.215
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Ifliili, Ibrahim ibn Muhammad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-ifliili-ibrahim-ibn-muhammad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.