"God has sent showers upon the abandoned dwelling-places of those we loved. He has woven upon them a striped, many-coloured garment of flowers, and raised among them a flower like a star. How many girls like images trailed their garments among such flowers, when life was fresh and time was at our service...How happy they were, those days that have passed, days of pleasure, when we lived with those who had black, flowing hair and white shoulders...Now say to Destiny whose favours have vanished โ favours I have lamented as the nights have passed โ how faintly its breeze has touched me in my evening. But for him who walks in the night the stars still shine: greetings to you, Cรณrdoba, with love and longing."
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Diwan, ed. K. al-Bustani (Beirut, 1951), pp. 29โ33; reported in Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples, 2nd ed. (2005) ch. 12
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Ibn Zaydun
1003 โ 1071
Ibn Zaydoun (Arabic: ; 1003โ1071) was an Arab Andalusian poet of Cordoba and Seville. He was considered the greatest neoclassical poet of al-Andalus.
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