Ibn Hamdis

Biography:

Ibn Hamdis was a Sicilian Arab poet. He was born in Noto near Syracuse. When he was 31 his town was captured by the Normans and he was forced to move to Andalusia then still under Muslim control at Taifa of Sevilla where he made friends with prince Al Mutamid who was also a poet. After the death of the latter in an Almoravid prison of Aghmat Hamdis moved to central Maghreb under the protection of prince al-Mansur.