أبو الوليد ابن زيدون
أبو الوليد ابن زيدون
Abu'l-Walid Ibn Zaydun, the Cordoban poet whose famous odes mourn Wallada — she answered his defection to her songstress with the al-Musaddas lampoon; he later moved to Seville's Abbadid court 1.
At a glance
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
- Review
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Overview
Abu al-Walid Ahmad ibn Abdallah Ibn Zaydun al-Andalusi al-Makhzumi, a poet and one of the notables of Córdoba. 2
Wallada, daughter of al-Mustakfi
Al-Maqqari says that he loved Wallada, daughter of al-Mustakfi, and composed poems and fragments for her. When it became clear to her that he inclined toward her black slave-girl, she wrote to him: "If you were fair in love between us, you would not have desired my slave-girl." She gave him the nickname al-Musaddas (the hexagon). 2
Among the house of Abbad
He presented the first apple of the season to al-Mu'tadid, the father of al-Mu'tamid. 2
Sources
- Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari, p. 209-210
- Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari, p.209-210
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