Ibn Muqana
Ibn Muqana , actually Abu Zaid Abdurrahman ibn Muqana ( Arabic أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن مقانا, DMG Abū Zaid ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān b. Muqānā , also Ibn Muqana ; * in the 11th century in Alcabideche , Cascais district , Portugal ; † in the 11th century in Portugal) was an Arab-Portuguese poet on the Iberian Peninsula .
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Much of his life remains in the haze of history. What is known is that Ibn Muqana was one of the first poets in Europe to sing about windmills. His home parish Alcabideche was a tiny village at the time of his birth and is now a normal Portuguese parish.
Later it drove him to the royal courts and emirates of the Iberian Peninsula, where he worked as one of the countless poets and entertained the kings there with his work, mostly eclogues . Stays at the courts of the emirs in Málaga , the Abbasids in Seville and in the kingdom of Granada were historically certain . In 1043 he read to Emir Idris II in Malaga - that is historically certain - one of his eclogues. But bucolic poetry has also been handed down by him.
After a short break or a visit to his hometown, he lived from 1045 at the court of Emir Almodafer in Badajoz .
It wasn't until the end of the twentieth century that the modern Portuguese state paid tribute to its only Islamic poet Portugal ever produced. At Alcabideche a stele with verses commemorates the poet, the municipality of Alcabideche has named their secondary school after Ibn Muqana since 1989 (Escola Ibn Mucana). It may be one of the very few schools in Western Europe that is named after an Islamic-Moorish-Arabic poet.
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- www.pintorlopes.blogspot.de/2011/07/
- www.cronicas-portuguesas.blogspot.de/2008/04/ab-mucana
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ibn Mucana |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abu Zeide (Zayd); Abdurahman Ibn Mucana (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Arab-Portuguese poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 11th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alcabideche |
| DATE OF DEATH | 11th century |