Salih ben Sharif al-Rundi
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Abu Muhammad Salih b. Abi Sharif al-Rundi (or Abu-l-Tayyib/ Abu-l-Baqa Salih b. Sharif al-Rundi) was a poet from al-Andalus. He was born in Sevilla in 1204 and fled that town in 1248 and lived in Ceuta until his death in 1285. al-Rundi wrote a handbook on poetry. His fame is based on the nuniyya, a poem mourning the sad fate of Al-Andalus.
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
- Performance of Qasida by Al-Rundi (YouTube)
(retrieved, 23-11-2010)