Ibn Zamrak

Ibn Zamrak () (also Zumruk) or Abu Abduallah Muhammad ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Surayhi, (1333–1393) was an Arab Andalusian poet and statesman from Granada, Al-Andalus. Some of his poems still decorate the fountains and palaces of the Alhambra in Granada.

See also

• Court of the Lions

Sources

• "Biography of Ibn Zamrak", in: The Encyclopaedia of Islam.(2), iii, pp. 972–973, article by F. de la Granja
• "The Eye of Sovereignty: Poetry and Vision in the Alhambra's Lindaraja Mirado" by D. Fairchild Ruggles, in: Gesta, Vol. 36, No. 2, Visual Culture of Medieval Iberia (1997), pp. 180–189
• García Gómez, Emilio (1905-1995), Ibn Zamrak el poeta de la Alhambra, Granada : Patronato de la Alhambra, 1975
• Le poete vizir Ibn Zamrak: du faubourg d' Al baycine au palais de l'Alhambra, by Hamdan Hadjadji, 2005
• Ibn Zamrak al-Gharnāṭī, 733-796 H/1333-1393 M : sÄ«ratuhu wa-adabuh, by Aḥmad SalÄ«m Ḥimṣī, BayrÅ«t : Mu'assasat al-Risālah; Ṭarābulus, Lubnān : Där al-Īmān, 1985.

External links

• Poems of the Alhambra