Ibn al-Abbar

Ibn al-Abbār
Born1199
Valencia, Spain
Died(1260-01-06)January 6, 1260
Tunis
Other namesAbū Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn 'Abdullah ibn Abū Bakr al-Qudā'ī al-Balansī; also Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Kudāi[1]
Occupation(s)Biographer, Historian, Encyclopedist, Poet, Ambassador

Ibn al-Abbār (ابن الأبار), he was Hāfiẓ Abū Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn 'Abdullah ibn Abū Bakr al-Qudā'ī al-Balansī (أبو عبد الله محمد بن عبد الله بن أبي بكر بن عبد الله بن عبد الرحمن القضاعي البلنسي)[2] (1199–1260) a secretary to Hafsid dynasty princes,[1] well-known poet, diplomat, jurist and hadith scholar from al-Andalus and perhaps the most famous man of letters produced by the city of Valencia ('Balansiya') during the Middle Ages.[3]

  1. ^ a b Khallikān (Ibn) 1843, p. 424, n.3, II.
  2. ^ This laqab' indicates that he had an ancestor needle maker.
  3. ^ Merriam-Webster, Inc, Merriam-Webster's encyclopedia of literature, Merriam-Webster, 1995, p. 575