Ali ibn Attiya ibn al-Zaqqaq () (c. 1100 Valencia - 1133 or 1134) was one of the great poets of Al-Andalus during the reign of the Almoravids.James T. Monroe, Hispano-Arabic poetry: a student anthology, p. 39 He was a Muslim from Banu Lakhm. His mother was the sister of fellow Andalusian poet, Ibn Khafaja, and there is scholarly dispute regarding his father.Granja, F. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs, 2012, “Ibn al-Zaḳḳāḳ” He was a disciple under philosopher Ibn Ṣîd de Badajoz.
El sueño de Al-Zaqqâq by Luis Delgado is a collection of the works of Ibn Al-Zaqqaq set to music.
Reception Literary historian Emilio García Gómez referred to al-Zaqqaq's descriptive poetry as "the dramatization of metaphor".García Gómez, Emilio. Ibn al-Zaqqaq: Poesías. Madrid, 1956
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Further reading Poesías / Ibn Al-Zaqqāq; edición y traducción en verso [del árabe] de Emilio García Gómez, Publicación Madrid : Instituto Hispano-Arabe de Cultura, 1986
External links Ibn al-Zaqqaq al-Balansi, Trad. Ramon Dachs i Josep Ramon Gregori, Robaiyat d'Ibn al-Zaqqaq de València (examples of his work plus trl. in Catalan) (retrieved September 15, 2010) El Zoco sin compradores. Poesía al Andalus S. XI-XIII Modest Solans, Granada. Edición bilingüe, Muret 2018.