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The ʿAbbādids (Banū ʿAbbād) were a dynasty (of Lakhmid stock), which reigned over southwestern al-Andalus—with Seville as its capital—from 417/1027 to 484/1091–2, during the period of the mulūk al-ṭawāʾif (party kings; the singular noun ṭāʾifa , which means literally “party, fac…

Ibn Ḥayyān , Abū Marwān Ḥayyān b. Khalaf b. Ḥusayn b. Ḥayyān b. Muḥammad b. Ḥayyān b. Wahb b. Ḥayyān al-Qurṭubī (377–469/987–1076), was an historian and adīb (belletrist), and author of a general history of al-Andalus from the Arab conquest up to his time. He traced his descent …

Arabic bibliographies include works of bibliographical content and purpose written in Arabic throughout the classical age; the bibliographies of Islamic literary works written by modern authors, such as Karl Brockelmann and Fuat Sezgin; the bibliographies of publications about t…

Abū l-Qāsim Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Ghafūr b. Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd al-Ghafūr (d. after 542/1147) al-Kalāʿī —from the Ḥimyarite tribe of Dhū l-Kalāʿ—was an Andalusī secretary and a jurist, and the author of Iḥkām ṣanʿat al-kalām (“Mastering the art of prose writing”), a treatise belongi…

The Afṭasids were an Arabised Berber dynasty of the fifth/eleventh century, which reigned during the period of the mulūk al-ṭawāʾif (“the party kings,” or the Taifa kings) in al-Andalus, over a territory called the Northern March (al-thaghr al-jawfī) or the Western March (thaghr…