361 – Ibn Mughallis, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Sayyid al-Andalusī *

The master–philologist Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Sayyid ibn Mughallis al-Qaysī (1), an Andalusian who settled in Egypt, was counted among the leading authorities on Arabic letters.

He produced exquisite poetry, and among his verses are these lines:

His eyelids are ailing though no illness he knows,
yet my heart, because of him, languishes sore.
He came not in yearning, he only appeared
to hint to me that it is I he ignores. (2)

He studied under Ṣāʿid ibn al-Ḥasan al-Rabaʿī and others.

He died in 427 AH.

82 – al-Muʿtalī, Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī al-Idrīsī *

The ruler of al-Andalus, Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥammūd al-Ḥasanī, the Idrisid from the Maghrib, surnamed al-Muʿtalī bi-Allah.

He rebelled against his uncle, Emir al-Qāsim ibn Ḥammūd, advanced on him from Málaga, and seized Córdoba. Later al-Qāsim regained the upper hand, won over the Berbers, mustered his forces, and marched on Córdoba in 413 AH, whereupon al-Muʿtalī fled to Málaga; then matters grew unsettled—