Literature and territory: Madrid (“Maŷrīṭ”) in the “Mugrib” of Ibn Sa´īd (13th Century)

Abstract

Analyzes and translates the data that Ibn Sa´īd al-Magribī (Granada, 1214-Tunisia, 1286) offers over Madrid in the historical and literary anthology of the Mugrib, where they are collected biographies sorted geographically, and, in this case, since the relationship between literature and living space, will provide some facts about the historical background of the Madrid belonging to the territory of Toledo, history that make us go to the al-Andalus period.

Keywords

• biografías y entorno espacial. al-mugrib. ibn sa´īd. literatura de madrid andalusí.