Confessions of Ibn al-Khaṭīb in the A‛māl al-a‛lām: a complement to the autobiography of the vizier from Granada

Abstract

Spanish translation and study of the chapter of Ibn al-Khaṭīb’s A‛māl al-a‛lām of the important second reign of Muḥammad V. The Arabic text, of medium size (12 pages in total), was conceived by its author, more that as a chronicle of the events, as a justification for his person and his ministry, without sparing us the details of his terrible relationship with the monarch, or the reasons that prompted him to flee from Granada, putting in our eyes the infrequent freshness, in Arabic literature, of a narration in the first person, so that it can be considered as the memories that the Granada polygrapher did not dare to capture in his autobiography, article with which the Iḥāṭa book is finished off.