Abu ’l-ʿAbbās (or Abū Dj̲aʿfar) Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hurayra al-ʿUtbī (or al-Kaysī) () (died 1126), nicknamed al-Aʿmā al-Tuṭīlī or the Blind Poet of Tudela, was an Andalusian Arab poet who composed in Arabic. al-Aʿmā means "the blind" and al-Tuṭīlī "the Tudelan". Although born in Tudela, he was raised in Seville, where he gained talent in poetry. He later lived in Murcia. He died young.
Notes Dar al-Tiraz: Hulwu l-majani is a panegyric on the occasion of the accession of Ali ben Yusuf b. Tashufin to the office of Amir al-Muslimin (Samuel Miklos Stern, Hispano-Arabic strophic poetry:studies, Clarendon Press, 1974, p. 100)Emilio Garcia Gómez, In praise of boys: Moorish poems from al-Andalus, 1975, p.25
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