At a glance
- Roles
- Poet
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Overview
Yusuf ibn Harun al-Ramadi, a poet of Cordoba, prolific in verse and quick in utterance. 1
His standing
Al-Maqqari relates that many of the masters of literature in his time said that poetry had been opened with Kinda and closed with Kinda, meaning Imru' al-Qays, al-Mutanabbi and Yusuf ibn Harun. 1
His training and last years
He acquired the craft of literature from his teacher Abu Bakr Yahya ibn Hudhayl the blind. Abu Umar ibn Abd al-Barr took from him a piece of his poetry and included some of it in his own work. He lived long enough to see the civil strife, and in it he was overtaken by a poverty that destroyed him. He died around 403 AH (about 1012 CE). 1
Sources
- Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p. 40-41
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islam.museum contributors. “Yusuf ibn Harun al-Ramadi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-ramadi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.