Abu al-Abbas al-Jarawi

Abu al-Abbas Ahmad Ibn Abd as-Salam al-Jarawi (1133-1212) was the official poet of the Almohad dynasty. He published his poems in a diwan.[1] Ibn Idhari quotes 300 lines by Al-Jarawi in his Al-Bayan al-Mughrib. Little is known of him, except that he came from the Zenata tribe.

Notes and references

  1. Andrés Bazzana, Nicole Bériou, Pierre Guichard, Averroès et l'averroïsme, XIIe-XVe siècle: une itinéraire historique, Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2005, p. 180-181



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