Abu Muhammad Salih b. Abi Sharif ar-Rundi[a] (Arabic: أبو البقاء الرندي; 1204–1285[1]) or Abu-l-Tayyib/ Abu-l-Baqa Salih b. Sharif al-Rundi[2] was a poet, writer, and literary critic from al-Andalus who wrote in Arabic.
[3] His fame is based on his nuniyya entitled "رثاء الأندلس" Rithaa' ul-Andalus (Elegy for al-Andalus), a poem mourning the Catholic invasion and conquest of al-Andalus.
He was born in Sevilla in 1204 and fled that town in 1248 and lived in Ceuta until his death in 1285.
[4] ar-Rundi wrote a handbook on poetry entitled al-Wafi fi Natham al-Qawafi (الوافي في نظم القوافي).
[5] (retrieved, 23-11-2010)