Ibn Zuhr
Works by three dozen poets are translated, including: Ibn Shuhaid (992-1035), poet and author (see above, Monroe's "Risalat"); the well-known Ibn Hazm (994-1064), author of "Tauq al-hamama" ["The Dove's Necklace"], Ibn Hazm was also a Zahiri jurist and a philosopher-theologian; Ibn Zaydún (1003-1071), neoclassical poet; Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad (1040-1095), king of Seville, later deposed; Ibn Kafaja (1058-1139), nature poet; Ibn Baqi (died 1145 or 1150), muwashshaha poet; Al-Abyad (d.1130), muwashshaha poet, later crucified; Ibn Zuhr "al-hafid" (1113-1198), physician, muwashshaha poet; the great mystic and sufi shaykh Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240); Ibn al-Khatib (1313-1374), vizier of Granada, historian, assassinated in Fez; Ibn Zamrak (1333-1393), whose poems are engraved on the walls of the Alhambra, later assassinated; and, Yusuf III, Sultan of Granada from 1408 until his death in 1417.