Ibn al-Khabbaza

Abu l-Hassan ibn al-Khabbaza (died 1239) was a kadi, historian and poet active during the reign of the Almohad Sultan Abu al-Ala Idris al-Mamun (r. 1227–32) in Seville, al-Andalus and Marrakesh, Morocco. When the last sultan of this dynasty left Iberia in 1228, Al-Khabazza joined him. Al-Khabazza was also the author of poems and a bio-bibliographic work.

Poetry

A few lines from his poem entitled "The King Who Died Young":^[1]

Your life was of the order true

Of Arab eloquence:

The tale was brief, the words were few;

The meaning was immense.

References

1. English translation from A.J. Arberry, Moorish Poetry: A translation of The Pennants, an Anthology compiled in 1243 by the Andalusian Ibn Said (London: Cambridge University Press, 1953)

• Ildefonso Garijo Galán, Jorge Lirola Delgado, Vicente Carlos Navarro Oltra: "Ibn al-Jabbaza, Abu L-Hasan." Biblioteca de al-Andalus: de IBN al-Dabbag a IBN Kurz. Almería, Spain. Ed.: Fundación IBN Tufayl de Estudios Árabes. Vol. 1 Pag. 546-547. 2004 ISBN 84-934026-0-5
• "Ibn al-Khabbaza", p. 21 in: Moorish Poetry: A translation of the Pennants, an Anthology Compiled in 1243 by the Andalusian Ibn Said, Routledge 2001 ISBN 0-7007-1428-6