Ibn al-Zaqqaq

Not to be confused with Maliki scholar Ali ibn Qasim al-Zaqqaq.

Ali ibn Attiya ibn al-Zaqqaq (Arabic: علي إبن عطيّة إبن الزقّاق البلنسي اللخمي) (c. 1100 Valencia - 1133 or 1134) was one of the great poets of Al-Andalus during the reign of the Almoravids.^[1] He was a Muslim from Banu Lakhm. His mother was the sister of fellow Andalusian poet, Ibn Khafaja, and there is scholarly dispute regarding his father.^[2] He was a disciple under philosopher Ibn Ṣîd de Badajoz.^[3]

Ibn al-Zaqqaq
Born	Ali ibn Attiya ibn al-Zaqqaq c. 1100 Valencia, Al-Andalus (now Spain)
Died	1133 or 1134
Occupation	Poet
Language	Arabic
Nationality	Andalusian

El sueño de Al-Zaqqâq by Luis Delgado is a collection of the works of Ibn Al-Zaqqaq set to music.

Reception

Literary historian Emilio García Gómez referred to al-Zaqqaq's descriptive poetry as "the dramatization of metaphor".^[4]