أبو يحيى ابن عاصم الغرناطي

أبو يحيى ابن عاصم الغرناطي

Abu Yahya ibn Asim — Granadan ra'is, qadi, scholar, secretary and vizier, author of Jannat al-Rida fi'l-taslim li-ma qaddara Allah wa-qada, which reads al-Andalus's fall as the harvest of division the Christians sowed among its kings 1.

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The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
al-Andalus & Europe
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Abu Yahya ibn Asim al-Gharnati, chief judge, secretary and vizier, whom al-Maqqari describes as a scholar. 1

He wrote Jannat al-Rida fi al-Taslim lima Qaddara Allah wa Qada (The Garden of Contentment in Submitting to What God Has Decreed and Ordained). According to the source, he portrayed in it the end of al-Andalus and the cause of its fall, and traced that to the Christians' exploitation of the disputes among the kings of the peninsula. 1

The dates of his birth and death are not documented in the museum's data, and need an additional source.

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Jannat al-Rida fi al-Taslim lima Qadar Allah wa-Qada

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Jannat al-Rida fi al-Taslim lima Qadar Allah wa-Qada

Sources

  1. Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p. 511-512
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Jannat al-Rida fi al-Taslim lima Qadar Allah wa-Qada

Abu Yahya ibn Asim's consolatory work on al-Andalus's loss — its famous thesis that the Christians took no whole land until they had first sown division among its kings and protectors.