أبو بكر ابن قزمان

Abu Bakr Ibn Quzman, the zajjal (vernacular poet) of Córdoba. ²

Al-Maqqari relays the words of Lisan al-Din Ibn al-Khatib about him: he was unique in literature, wit and renown. In his view Ibn Quzman reached a level in zajal that no one else reached, so that he was its miraculous sign and its master horseman. ²

The source says that al-Mutawakkil ala Allah took him into his company and clothed him in his garments. ² The name also appears with Córdoba.