Ibn Luyūn (b. 681/1282–3, d. 750/1349) was a jurist, teacher, poet, and Andalusian writer of compendiums from Almería, who devoted his life to teaching and to summarising or abridging various works for the purposes of teaching and the transmission of knowledge. He is famous for …
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Abū Bakr Yaḥyā Ibn Hudhayl (b. al-Ḥakam) b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Hudhayl b. Ismāʿīl b. Nuwayra b. Ismāʿīl/Jamīl b. Nuwayra b. Mālik b. Nuwayra al-Tamīmī (d. 389/999), known as al-Shāʿir al-Kafīf or al-Shāʿir al-Aʿmā (the blind poet), was a jurist and traditionist but, above all, one…
Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Hudhayl b. Muḥammad Ibn Hudhayl al-Fazārī al-Gharnāṭī (d. after 5 Ṣafar 812/19 June 1409) was an Andalusī writer, man of letters, poet, and faqīh (jurist) who specialised in chivalry; he also wrote six miscellaneous literary works of moralis…
Known as Ibn al-Zubayr al-Gharnāṭī (627–708/1230–1308), Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Zubayr b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Zubayr b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn b. al-Zubayr b. ʿĀṣim b. Muslim b. Kaʿb al-Thaqafī al-ʿĀṣimī al-Jayyānī al-Gharnāṭī was an expert in the Qurʾānic science…
Abū ʿAbdallāh Lisān al-Dīn Ibn al-Khaṭīb , distinguished politician and polygraph from Granada (713–76/1313–74 or 75), was a key figure in al-Andalus during the Naṣrid period (629–897/1232–1492). He worked for Muḥammad IV, Yūsuf I, and Muḥammad V, and acted as a bridge between t…
Baeza , a city in the province of Jaén (Spain), was known as Bayyāsa (earlier, the Roman and Visigothic Beatia), a madīna (city) and iqlīm (district) in the kūra (province) of Jayyān, in al-Andalus. Baeza was the scene of rebellions, strife, conquests, and decisive battles. The …
Al-Burzulī (c. 740– 841/1339– 1438) was a jurist and ḥāfiẓ (memoriser of books of law and religious science) of Tunis. He was muftī (jurisconsult), preacher, and imām (prayer leader) of al-Zaytūna, the main mosque of that city, which held the highest rank of all mosques in the Ḥ…
