The “Romance of Antar” by Moorish poet…
September 1160 CE
The “Romance of Antar” by Moorish poet Ibn Quzman represents the closest work to an epic in Arabic.
An exquisite lyricist, Ibn Quzman’s lifestyle is similar to that of troubadours.
His approach to life as expressed in these melodious poems, together with their mixed idiom (occasionally using words of the Romance languages), shows a resemblance to the later vernacular troubadour poetry of France.
He dies at Córdoba in 1160.