Los Banū Sarafuna noble familia de literatos virgitanos emigrados de Cairuán
- 1 Universidad de Cádiz, España
ISSN: 1575-3840, 2341-3549
Année de publication: 2016
Volumen: 18
Número: 2
Pages: 685-708
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Estudios sobre patrimonio, cultura y ciencias medievales
Résumé
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.