Abu al-Baqa ar-Rundi

Abu Muhammad Salih b. Abi Sharif ar-Rundi^[a] (Arabic: أبو البقاء الرندي; 1204–1285^[1]) or Abu-l-Tayyib/ Abu-l-Baqa Salih b. Sharif al-Rundi^[2] was a poet, writer, and literary critic from al-Andalus who wrote in Arabic.^[3] His fame is based on his nuniyya entitled "رثاء الأندلس" Rithaa' ul-Andalus (Elegy for al-Andalus), a poem mourning the Catholic invasion and conquest of al-Andalus.

Biography

He was born in Sevilla in 1204 and fled that town in 1248 and lived in Ceuta until his death in 1285.^[4] ar-Rundi wrote a handbook on poetry entitled al-Wafi fi Natham al-Qawafi (الوافي في نظم القوافي).^[5]

Notes

^ Lisan ad-Din Ibn al-Khatib gives his name as 'Abu at-Tayyib' in his الإحاطة في أخبار غرناطة, while Ahmad al-Maqqari gives his name as 'Abu al-Baqa in his نفح الطيب من غصن الأندلس الرطيب. The latter has become the common name, but 'Abu at-Tayyib' is probably the correct one as Ibn al-Khatib lived closer in time to the poet.

References

^ Ebied, R. Y.; Young, M. J. L. (January 1976). "ABŪ'L-BAQĀ' AL-RUNDĪ AND HIS ELEGY ON MUSLIM SPAIN". The Muslim World. 66 (1): 29–34. doi:10.1111/j.1478-1913.1976.tb03183.x. ISSN 0027-4909.
^ "ترجمة أي الطيب الرُّندي صاحب مرثية الأندلس". saaid.org. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
^ الدحيلان, عبدالمحسن (2018-05-04). "مرثية أبي البقاء الرندي في رثاء الأندلس". alyaum (in Arabic). Retrieved 2020-06-17.
^ Rothenberg, Jerome; Joris, Pierre; Robinson, Jeffrey Cane; Tengour, Habib (1995). Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four: The University of California Book of North African Literature. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-27385-6.
^ الرندي, ق. 7 هـ. الوافي في نظم القوافي. [s.n.] OCLC 929527481.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

Sources

Maya Shatzmiller, L'historiographie Mérinide. Ibn Khaldun et ses contemporains, Leiden, 1982
Abd Allah Kanun, Abu l-Baqa al-Rundi
- Zubair Mohammad Ehsanul Hoque, Elegy for lost kingdoms and ruined cities in Hispano-Arabic poetry article, 2007

External links

Lament for the Fall of Seville (1267), by Abu al-Baqa al-Rundi English translation with footnotes by James T. Monroe [1]
Performance of Qasida by Al-Rundi (YouTube) [2]

(retrieved, 23-11-2010)

[1] Lisan ad-Din Ibn al-Khatib gives his name as 'Abu at-Tayyib' in his الإحاطة في أخبار غرناطة, while Ahmad al-Maqqari gives his name as 'Abu al-Baqa in his نفح الطيب من غصن الأندلس الرطيب. The latter has become the common name, but 'Abu at-Tayyib' is probably the correct one as Ibn al-Khatib lived closer in time to the poet.

[:2-2] Ebied, R. Y.; Young, M. J. L. (January 1976). "ABŪ'L-BAQĀ' AL-RUNDĪ AND HIS ELEGY ON MUSLIM SPAIN". The Muslim World. 66 (1): 29–34. doi:10.1111/j.1478-1913.1976.tb03183.x. ISSN 0027-4909.

[3] "ترجمة أي الطيب الرُّندي صاحب مرثية الأندلس". saaid.org. Retrieved 2023-05-21.

[4] الدحيلان, عبدالمحسن (2018-05-04). "مرثية أبي البقاء الرندي في رثاء الأندلس". alyaum (in Arabic). Retrieved 2020-06-17.

[5] Rothenberg, Jerome; Joris, Pierre; Robinson, Jeffrey Cane; Tengour, Habib (1995). Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four: The University of California Book of North African Literature. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-27385-6.

[6] الرندي, ق. 7 هـ. الوافي في نظم القوافي. [s.n.] OCLC 929527481.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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