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The Abencerrag (from the Arabic بنو السراج Banu s-Saraj , DMG Banū s-Sarāǧ , Hispanicized Abencerrajes ) were a noble Moorish family in Granada , whocameto Spain in the 8th century .
They were named after a member of the family, Yusuf ben Zerragh , confidante of King Mohammed VII of Granada , and were known for their tragic demise.
According to the - albeit fictional - Historia de las guerras civiles de Granada des Ginés Pérez de Hita (Alcalá 1604, 2 volumes), the Abencerrags got into a dispute with the Zegris and were also in secret hostility to King Abu l-Hasan Ali . When the latter had found out about the love affair between one of the Abencerrags and his sister Zoraide, he had them lured into the Alhambra with the help of the Zegris and murdered here, except for a few who escaped. Even today, part of the Alhambra is called the Abencerrags .
This more or less fabulous incident is the basis of the story Gonsalve de Cordoue by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian , after which Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy edited the textbook for Luigi Cherubini's opera Les Abencérages (The Camp in Granada; 1813), as well as the well-known Story Les aventures du dernier des Abencérages (1826) by Chateaubriand .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Les aventures du dernier des Abencérages , François-René de Chateaubriand , website of the Gallica Bibliothèque Numérique , French
