Los Banū Sarafuna noble familia de literatos virgitanos emigrados de Cairuán

  1. Pilar Lirola Delado 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Cádiz, España
Zeitschrift:
Estudios sobre patrimonio, cultura y ciencias medievales

ISSN: 1575-3840 2341-3549

Datum der Publikation: 2016

Ausgabe: 18

Nummer: 2

Seiten: 685-708

Art: Artikel

Andere Publikationen in: Estudios sobre patrimonio, cultura y ciencias medievales

Zusammenfassung

This article collects, analyzes and systematizes the principal biographical facts concerning the lives of the three members of the Banū Sharaf family who lived in Al-Andalus, settling in the little town of Berja (Almería): Abū cAbd Allāh Muḥammad Ibn Sharaf al-Qayrawānī, his son Abū l-Faḍl Ŷacfar and his grandson Abū cAbd Allāh Muḥammad. The grandfather and father moved to Al-Andalus from Kairouan during the Taifa period, when the former was already an older man and his son still a child. They spent periods of time in the courts of different Taifa kingdoms, the grandson surviving into the early years of the Almohad era. Information about these three members of the Banū Sharaf family has frequently been confused. All three were poets, but they also wrote prose, maxims and gnomic sentences. Interesting historical data can be gleaned from their literary works, and their lives and the adventures of their emigration are illustrative of the vicissitudes of History.