Al-Fath_ibn_Khaqan_(al-Andalus)
Al-Fath ibn Khaqan (al-Andalus)
12th century Anthologist of Andalus
Abū Naṣr al-Fatḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Khāqān ibn Abdallah al-Qaysī al-Ishbīlī[1] (أبو نصر الفتح بن محمد بن عبيد الله بن خاقان بن عبد الله القيسي الإشبيلي; died 11 November 1134), known as al-Fatḥ ibn Khāqān, was a 12th-century popular anthologist of al-Andalus.
Al-Fatḥ ibn Khāqān al-Ishbīlī al-Andalusī | |
|---|---|
| Died | 11 November 1134 |
| Cause of death | assassination |
| Other names | Al-Fatḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Ubayd Allāh ibn Khāqān, Abū Naṣr al-Qaysī al-Ishbīlī |
| Academic work | |
| Era | Almoravid era |
| Main interests | anthologist of poetry and history |
| Notable works | Maṭmaḥ al-anfus wa-masraḥ al-taʼannus fī mulaḥ ahl al-Andalus; Qalā'id al-'Iqyān |
Ibn Khāqān was born in either Alcalá la Real or Seville.[2] He received an elite education and travelled widely across al-Andalus. Described as a 'libertine' and yet he was appointed secretary to the Almoravid governor of Granada Abū Yūsuf Tāshfīn ibn ‘Alī; a post he abandoned almost immediately to travel to Marrakesh where sometime later he was murdered, it was rumoured, on the orders of the sultan.[3] He died on 11 November 1134.[2]
The main sources for his biography are:
- Ibn Khallikan – Wafayāt al-A’yān wa-Anbā’ Abnā’ al-Zamān (tr. Obituaries of Eminent Men}[4]
- Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Diyha al-Kalbī – Al-Mutrib fī Ash’ār Ahl il-Mughrib[5]
- Al-Ṣafadī – Al-Wāfī bi-'l-wafayāt
- Qalā'id al-'Iqyān (قلائد العقيان) ‘Collars of Gold’ or 'Necklace of Rubies'; akhbar (traditions) of poets of the Maghreb and al-Andalus, who were his contemporaries with examples of their poems.[6][7]
- Maṭmaḥ al-anfus wa-masraḥ al-taʼannus fī mulaḥ ahl al-Andalus (مطمح الأنفس ومسرح التأنس في ملح أهل الأندلس) (Kābir, Wāsiṭ, Saghīr – Large, Medium, Small) 'The Aspiration of the Souls and the Theater of Congeniality in the Anecdotes of the People of al-Andalus';[8] History of the ministers, scribes and poets of al-Andalus.
These two works are written in rhymed prose full of metaphorical expressions and are an excellent source of information about the apogee of Andalusian letters.
Citations
- Waleed Saleh, "Ibn Jaqan", Diccionario Biográfico Español (2018).
- Ben Cheneb & Pellat 1965, p. 838.
- Khallikān (Ibn) 1843, pp. 455–6, II.
- Al-Fatḥ ibn Khāqān, Abū Naṣr al-Qaysī al-Ishbīlī (2007). Qalā'id al-'Iqyān (in Arabic). Cairo.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Qalaid al-Iqyan ed., Muhammad al-Tahir Ibn Ashur, 1990, ISBN 978-9973-12-145-5
- Al-Fatḥ ibn Khāqān, Abū Naṣr al-Qaysī al-Ishbīlī (1983). Maṭmaḥ al-anfus wa-masraḥ al-taʼannus fī mulaḥ ahl al-Andalus. Beirut: Shar Suriyya.
Bibliography
- Ben Cheneb, Ch.; Pellat (1983) [1965], "Al-Fatḥ ibn Khāqān", The Encyclopedia of Islam, vol. ii (New ed.), Leiden: E. J. Brill, p. 838
- Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Diyha al-Kalbī, ‘Umar ibn al-Ḥasan (1954). Al-Mutrib fī Ash'ār Ahl il-Mughrib (in Arabic). Cairo: Maktaba al-Misri.
- Khallikān (Ibn), Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (1843). Wafayāt al-A'yān wa-Anbā' Abnā' al-Zamān (The Obituaries of Eminent Men). Vol. II. Translated by McGuckin de Slane, William. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. pp. 455–6.
- Ṣafadī (aṣ-), Salah al-Dīn (1993), ʻAdnān al-Baḫīt, Muḥammạd (ed.), "Al-Wāfī bi-'l-wafayāt (Preface)", Bibliotheca Islamica (in Arabic), I, Beirut
- Weyer, Hendrik Engelinus (1831). Hamaker, Hendrik Arent (ed.). Specimen criticum exhibens locos Ibn Khacanis de Ibn Zeidouno (in Arabic and Latin). Leiden.
- Weyer, Hendrik Engelinus (1840), Orientalia (in Latin), vol. I, Amstelodami: Johannem Müller, pp. 295–501