Ibn Zaydun

This supposed him to be considered the best of the loving poets of the Muslim Hispania and to become a model for all subsequent Western Arabic poetry.

Ibn Zayduni was born in 1003 in Cordoba to an aristocratic Andalusian Arab family descended from the Banu Makhzum.

He joined the court of the Jahwarid Abu al-Hazm of Cordoba, but then was imprisoned by him after accusations that Ibn Zaydun conspired against him and his patrons.

In a poem about Cordoba he remembers his city and his youth:[5] God has sent showers upon abandoned dwelling places of those we loved.

How many girls like images trailed their garmets among such flowers, when life was fresh and time was at our service...How happy were, those days that have passed, days of pleasure, when we lived with those who had back flowing hair and white shoulders His romantic and literary life was dominated by his relations with the poet Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, the daughter of the Umayyad Caliph Muhammad III of Cordoba.