"Jādaka al-Ghaithu"(Arabic: جَادَكَ الغَيْثُ "Good Rain Would Befit You") is an Andalusi Arabic muwashshah by Ibn al-Khatib.[1]
It was written as a madīh (مديح "panegyric") of Sultan Muhammad V of Granada.[2] Abd al-Halim Husayn Harrut estimates it was written in the Hijri year 769 (1367-1368) or shortly thereafter, due to the presence of the phrase al-ghanī billah (الغني بالله), a moniker used for Muhammad V after a number of victories over the Crown of Castile, the last of which occurred around 1367–1368.[2]
It is notable piece in Andalusi literature in general and the repertoire of the muwashshah genre in particular.[1]
According to Ahmad al-Maqqari in Nafh at-Tib , "Jādaka al-Ghaithu" takes from Ibn Sahl of Seville's poem with the maṭlaʿ, or opening:[3]
هَل دَرى ظَبيُ الحِمى أَن قَد حَمى .. قَلبَ صَبٍّ حَلَّهُ عَن مَكنَسِ
فَهوَ في حَرٍّ وَخَفقٍ مِثلَما .. لَعِبَت ريحُ الصَبا بِالقَبَسِ
- ^ a b الإحاطة في أخبار غرناطة. 2014-01-01. ISBN 978-2-7451-3319-9.
- ^ a b موشحات لسان الدين بن الخطيب : دراسة وجمع. 2012. ISBN 978-9957-38-229-2. OCLC 913152191.
- ^ al-Maqqari, Ahmed. نفح الطيب من غصن الأندلس الرطيب [The Breath of Perfume from the Branch of Flourishing Al-Andalus] (in Arabic). Vol. 7. p. 11.