Hibat Allāh ibn Jaʻfar Ibn Sanāʼ al-Mulk

Abu ’l-Qāsim Hibat Allāh b. Abī ’l-Faḍl Jaʿfar b. al-Muʿtamid , known as Ibn Sanāʾ al-Mulk , was a 12th-century Egyptian qāḍi, poet, scholar interested in the Andalusi muwaššaḥ. He published Dār aṭ-ṭirāz fī ʿamal al-muwas̲h̲s̲h̲aḥāt , an anthology containing 34 Andalusi and Maghribi muwaššaḥat, his theory of the genre, as well as 35 of his own muwaššaḥat. It notably described the muwaššaḥ as a poetic form and a musical form, making it an important text for the history of Andalusi classical music. Dar at-Tiraz was published in a modern edition by the Syrian scholar in 1949. ''