Al-Fath ibn Khaqan (al-Andalus)
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Al-Fatḥ ibn Khāqān al-Ishbīlī al-Andalusī | |
|---|---|
| Died | 11 November 1134 |
| Cause of death | assassination |
| Other names | Al-Fatḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Ubayd Allāh ibn Khāqān, Abū Naṣr al-Qaysī al-Ishbīlī |
| Academic work | |
| Era | Almoravid era |
| Main interests | anthologist of poetry and history |
| Notable works | Maṭmaḥ al-anfus wa-masraḥ al-taʼannus fī mulaḥ ahl al-Andalus; Qalā'id al-'Iqyān |
Abū Naṣr al-Fatḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Khāqān ibn Abdallah al-Qaysī al-Ishbīlī[1] (أبو نصر الفتح بن محمد بن عبيد الله بن خاقان بن عبد الله القيسي الإشبيلي; died 11 November 1134), known as al-Fatḥ ibn Khāqān, was a 12th-century popular anthologist of al-Andalus.
Ibn Khāqān was born in either Alcalá la Real or Seville.[2] He received an elite education and travelled widely across al-Andalus. Described as a 'libertine' and yet he was appointed secretary to the Almoravid governor of Granada Abū Yūsuf Tāshfīn ibn ‘Alī; a post he abandoned almost immediately to travel to Marrakesh where sometime later he was murdered, it was rumoured, on the orders of the sultan.[3] He died on 11 November 1134.[2]
The main sources for his biography are:
- Ibn Khallikan – Wafayāt al-A’yān wa-Anbā’ Abnā’ al-Zamān (tr. Obituaries of Eminent Men}[4]
- Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Diyha al-Kalbī – Al-Mutrib fī Ash’ār Ahl il-Mughrib[5]
- Al-Ṣafadī – Al-Wāfī bi-'l-wafayāt
