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Ibn Hamdis elected to leave again. After a perilous sea-journey, in which his boat was shipwrecked, causing his beloved slave-girl, Jawhara, to drown (to her he devoted some of his finest elegies), the poet settled once again in North Africa. He found new patrons at the
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conquest. In 1091, Ibn Hamdis witnessed, together with the dismayed population of Seville, the arrest and deportation of his patron and friend al-Mu'tamid to North Africa. Also in 1091, as the Andalusian taifas fell to
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were taking advantage of this political weakness, and advancing steadily in their conquest of the island. Ibn Hamdis was about five years old when the Norman armies, aided and abetted by the Sicilian Arab warlord
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and moved westward to Palermo. When the city fell in 1072, the hopes for a revival of Muslim sovereignty on the island began to wane, and a diaspora of Muslim Sicilians began.
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and its ephemeral splendour had long been effaced by squabbles between contender warlords, who had partitioned the island into three fiefdoms. The
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and together with other artists of the Ensamble group, organized on the poetics of Ibn Ḥamdīs, and other Arab poets of Sicily, the show
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However, the prosperity of the Muslims of Sicily was not to last. In the second half of the 11th century the political stability of
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Granara, W. 'Ibn Ḥamdīs and the Poetry of Nostalgia', The Literature of Al-Andalus. (Cambridge, University Press, 2000), 180-183.
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are extant and were both used by ʾIḥsān ʿAbbās to establish his edition (Beirut 1960). The first copy is kept at the
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Ibn Hamdis, like so many others, set sail with his wife and sons to North Africa, to reach some of his relatives in
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See also Carpentieri. N: "Towards a Poetics of Ageing: Private and Collective Loss in Ibn Ḥamdīs' Late Verse" in
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in the 9th century. Ibn Hamdis enjoyed the benefits and reaped the fruits of such privileged upbringing.
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has dedicated three albums to the poetry of the Arab poets of Sicily and in particular to Ibn Hamdis:
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poet Sebastiano Burgaretta the influence of Ibn Ḥamdīs is clear. And to the great
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Abu Muhammad Abd al-Jabbar ibn Abi Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Hamdis al-Azdi al-Siqilli
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in Saint Petersburg (294). Other scattered poems by Ibn Hamdis are found in
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had been severely compromised by decades of internecine struggle. The
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set to music some works by Ibn Hamdis in a musical project entitled
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Forgotten for much of the 20th century, Ibn Hamdis is mentioned by
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The following entry is partly extracted from the dissertation:
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SIQILIAH land of Islam - Arab travelers and poets of Sicily
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Ibn Ḥamdīs, Dīwān. Ed. ʾIḥsān ʿAbbās. (Beirut, 1960), 22.
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Ibn Ḥamdīs, Dīwān, Ed. ʾIḥsān ʿAbbās (Beirut, 1960), 23.
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The second is preserved in the 268:Kashf al-ẓunūn ʾan asāmī al-kutub wa-al-funūn 391:intended to honor the Arab poets of Sicily. 562: 548: 483:https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/10381396 317:Ibn Hamdis's influence in today's culture 83: 96:) musician-poet at the Norman court in 2328: 428:, with the collaboration of Professor 2185: 1694: 786: 616: 581: 569: 543: 395:The musical ensemble Milagro acoustic 2188:National literatures of Arab states 115: 13: 443:which was also very successful in 303:Dhakhīra fī Maḥāsin ʾAhl al-Jazīra 14: 2397: 251:(1121–1152). He also praised the 247:(1115–1121) and the latter's son 461:richness of its cultural roots. 330:article Sicily and Sicilitudine, 617: 600:Pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions 457:in order to celebrate Sicily's 455:Diwan: The Essence of the Real, 88:A 12th century representation ( 2381:People under the Zirid dynasty 2351:Sicilian Arabic-language poets 700:Harith ibn Hilliza Al-Yashkuri 527: 518: 509: 500: 487: 471: 449:In 2011 the Sicilian musician 401:(2005 Compagnia Nuove Indye), 108:Ibn Ḥamdīs al-ʾAzdī al-Ṣīqillī 1: 897:Zufar ibn al-Harith al-Kilabi 787: 464: 2346:People from Syracuse, Sicily 344:) of the work of Ibn Ḥamdīs 78:Diwan (collection of poetry) 7: 2361:History of Syracuse, Sicily 1358:Hamda bint Ziyad al-Muaddib 332:included in the collection 118:; c. 1056 – c. 1133) was a 10: 2402: 1695: 892:Yunus al-Katib al-Mughanni 381:the Zagara and Rais events 2194: 2181: 1900:Ahmad Abd al-Ghafur Attar 1855: 1707: 1703: 1690: 1639: 1566: 1313: 925: 799: 795: 782: 625: 612: 590: 577: 153:Muslim conquest of Sicily 74: 66: 58: 50: 40: 28: 21: 2366:11th-century Arab people 1290:Ibn al-Qatta' al-Siqilli 36:Syracuse or Noto, Sicily 1659:Abdul Qadir al-Baghdadi 1110:Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani 965:Abu'l-Qasimbal-Maghribi 750:Uthman ibn al-Huwayrith 645:Al-Fāriʿah bint Shaddād 582: 348:,and more generally of 125:Ibn Hamdis was born in 1165:Abu Muhammad al-Anbari 1155:Safiyya al-Baghdadiyya 670:Al-Nu'man ibn Humaydah 413:(2013 Cultural Bridge 389:Sicilian Arabic Poetry 350:Arab culture in Sicily 340:(More specifically in 256:al-Mansur ibn al-Nasir 217:conquest of the island 104: 2356:Poets from al-Andalus 1905:Abdur Rahman Kashgari 1737:Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi 1438:Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad 1255:Al-Raghib al-Isfahani 817:Abd al-Hamid al-Katib 807:Al-Akhtal al-Taghlibi 630:Abu Layla al-Muhalhel 407:Compagnia Nuove Indye 360:. 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1263: 1261: 1258: 1256: 1253: 1251: 1248: 1246: 1243: 1241: 1238: 1236: 1233: 1231: 1228: 1226: 1223: 1221: 1218: 1216: 1213: 1211: 1208: 1206: 1203: 1201: 1198: 1196: 1193: 1191: 1188: 1186: 1183: 1181: 1178: 1176: 1173: 1171: 1170:Ibn al-Anbari 1168: 1166: 1163: 1161: 1158: 1156: 1153: 1151: 1148: 1146: 1143: 1141: 1138: 1136: 1133: 1131: 1128: 1126: 1123: 1121: 1118: 1116: 1113: 1111: 1108: 1106: 1103: 1101: 1098: 1096: 1093: 1091: 1088: 1086: 1083: 1081: 1078: 1076: 1073: 1071: 1068: 1066: 1063: 1061: 1058: 1056: 1053: 1051: 1048: 1046: 1043: 1041: 1038: 1036: 1033: 1031: 1028: 1026: 1023: 1021: 1018: 1016: 1013: 1011: 1008: 1006: 1003: 1001: 998: 996: 993: 991: 988: 986: 983: 981: 978: 976: 973: 971: 968: 966: 963: 961: 958: 956: 953: 951: 948: 946: 943: 941: 938: 936: 935:Bint al-Mahdī 933: 932: 930: 928: 924: 918: 915: 913: 910: 908: 905: 903: 900: 898: 895: 893: 890: 888: 885: 883: 880: 878: 875: 873: 870: 868: 865: 863: 860: 858: 855: 853: 850: 848: 845: 843: 840: 838: 835: 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1543:Ibn Jubayr 1513:Ibn Wahbun 1498:Abu Madyan 1428:Ibn Zaydún 1423:Ibn Zamrak 1413:Ibn Quzman 1398:Ibn Juzayy 1393:Ibn Bassam 1363:Ibn Hamdis 1328:Abu Ja'far 1315:Al-Andalus 1305:Ibn 'Adlan 1250:Ibn Hayyus 1240:al-Tawhīdī 1235:Al-Daylami 1220:Al-Tughrai 1200:Ibn Bakkar 1135:Al-Shafi'i 1070:Al-Ma'arri 1045:Ibn Duraid 955:Abu Tammam 730:Al-Nabigha 465:References 299:Ibn Bassam 192:al-Andalus 51:Occupation 23:Ibn Hamdis 2271:Palestine 2120:al-Sayyab 2115:Al-Bayati 1586:Al-Busiri 1533:al-Fazazi 1518:Ibn Abdun 1488:Ibn Arabi 1478:Yusuf III 1473:Yusuf III 1463:Al-Tutili 1383:Ibn Amira 1348:Buthaina 1343:Ibn Ammar 1280:Al-Hallaj 1215:Niftawayh 1160:Al-Zahiri 1085:Abu Nuwas 1050:al-Zajjaj 1015:Al-Busiri 975:Al-Asma'i 867:Kuthayyir 862:Al-Khansa 789:Classical 655:Al-Ḥurqah 358:musicians 279:Ibn Zafar 231:court of 208:Almoravid 166:court of 2214:Djibouti 1930:Said Akl 1523:Avempace 1503:al-Rundi 1483:Ibn Hazm 1418:Ibn Sahl 1388:Ibn Baqi 1265:Al Uyuni 1095:Shāriyah 1090:Al-Jahiz 725:Mu'aqqir 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Index


Cappella Palatina
Saracen
Palermo
Sicily
Arabic
Sicilian Arab
Syracuse
Sicily
AH
AD
dīwān
Val di Noto
Muslim conquest of Sicily
Muslim Sicily
Kalbid
Palermo
Normans
Ibn al-Thumna
Messina
Sfax
al-Andalus
al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad
panegyrists
taifa kingdoms
Almoravid
Yusuf ibn Tashufin
conquest of the island
Zirid
Mahdiya

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