أبو الوليد ابن زيدون

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At a glance

Era: Abbasid Fragmentation
Region: al-Andalus & Europe
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Life in time

The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abu al-Fath Abd al-Baqi al-Haddad al-Hanbali al-Faradi · Abd al-Malik Ibn Attash · Abdallah ibn Hamuwayh al-Juwayni · Abu al-Hasan al-Ibadi · Abu al-Mahasin al-Ruyani

Overview

Abu al-Walid Ahmad ibn Abdallah Ibn Zaydun al-Andalusi al-Makhzumi, a poet and one of the notables of Córdoba. ²

Wallada, daughter of al-Mustakfi

Al-Maqqari says that he loved Wallada, daughter of al-Mustakfi, and composed poems and fragments for her. When it became clear to her that he inclined toward her black slave-girl, she wrote to him: "If you were fair in love between us, you would not have desired my slave-girl." She gave him the nickname al-Musaddas (the hexagon). ²

Among the house of Abbad

He presented the first apple of the season to al-Mu'tadid, the father of al-Mu'tamid. ²

Sources

Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p. 209-210
Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p.209-210

Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali

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