Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Poet
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
- Review
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Life in time
Summary
Abu 'Amir Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan ibn Dhi'l-Wizaratayn Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Malik ibn 'Umar ibn Shahid al-Ashja'i al-Qurtubi, the poet and standard-bearer of eloquence and verse in al-Andalus; Ibn Hazm said: he died in Jumada I, Abu'l-Hasan Jumhur prayed over him, and no peer of his in poetry and eloquence came after; he was open-handed and generous, and lived forty-odd years. 1
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 230
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islam.museum contributors. “أبو عامر ابن شهيد الأشجعي القرطبي”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-shahid-al-andalusi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.