al-Shaqundi

Abu al-Walid Isma'il ibn Muhammad al-Shaqundi al-Andalusi, author of a treatise on the superiority of al-Andalus over the shore of the Adwa, which al-Maqqari quotes many times in "Nafh al-Tib". ²

He describes Granada as the Damascus of the lands of al-Andalus, and says it was never without nobles, scholars and poets. Among the virtues of Seville in his view is the moderation of its air and the sweetness of its water. ^{2 3}