Abu al-Abbás Ahmad

Abu al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad, widely known by his sobriquet al-Aʿmā al-Tuṭīlī (“the Blind [poet] of Tudela”), was an Andalusi Arabic poet active in the early twelfth century whose reputation is closely bound to the muwashshaḥa, the strophic poetic form that was written for performance in sung or semi-sung settings. Born in Tudela in the Ebro valley, he is generally described as having spent formative years in Seville under Almoravid rule, a milieu in which courtly patronage