Ibn Bāŷŷa against Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Zuhr. Satirical poetry and rational sciences in the Almoravid period.
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- Miquel FORCADA NOGUÉS (ES) redacción artículo
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In a passage of Nafḥ al-ṭīb by al-Maqqarī (m. 1041/1632) whose source is unknown, there are two satirical couplets exchanged by the most important physicians of the first half of the 12th century, Ibn Bāŷŷa and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Zuhr. The first compares the second with the “angel of death”. The second says that the first is a heretic who deserves execution (seemingly, because he was a philosopher). These verses may be interpreted in many ways, the simplest of which is that they express a harsh rivalry as much personal as professional. Two versions of the verses, slightly different from each other, appear in four sources written between the 12th and the 13th centuries. These works attribute the verses to Ibn Bāŷŷa and two other poets. One of these sources strongly suggests Ibn Bāŷŷa was not the author. It is therefore probable that the story told by al-Maqqarī was invented in order to express something more than a personal enmity. The literary and historical analysis of the several versions of this story provides interesting insights into, on the one hand, the horizontal relationships between the experts in philosophy and the sciences; on the other, the vertical relationships between these scholars and the Almoravid regime.
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