Ibn Amira
Ibn Amira (Arabic: ابن عمیرہ)(1186- 1258/60), full name: Abū al-Muṭarrif Aḥmad bin Abdallāh bin al-Ḥusayn bin Aḥmad Ibn Amīra al-Makhzūmī (Arabic: أبو المطرف أحمد بن عبد الله بن محمد بن الحسين ابن عميرة المخزومي) was a historian, poet, and scholar of law from al-Andalus during the reign of the Almohad Caliphate.[1] Ibn Amira was Qadi of Mallorca and worked for the Almohad sultan in Valencia and Seville.He was born into a well-known Berber family established in al-Andalus, in Shatiba (now Xàtiva, Valencia), by the eleventh century.He started his studies in Alzira and focused on hadith, fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), and literature.He was taught by some of the most famous scholars of his day, such as the traditionist Abu l-Rabi Ibn Salim and the grammarian al-Shalawbin.