Abū ‘Āmir Ibn Gharsīyah al-Bashkunsī (Arabic: أبو عامر بن غرسية البشكنسي) (died 1084), popularly known as Ibn Gharsiya or Ibn García, was a Muwallad poet and katib (writer) in the Taifa court in Denia. Ibn Gharsiya is known as a proponent for the shu'ubiyya polemical thought in Al-Andalus, arguing in his Risala for the relative superiority of Byzantine and Persian culture over the culture of Arabs.
Abū ‘Āmir Ibn Gharsīyah al-Bashkunsī (Arabic: أبو عامر بن غرسية البشكنسي) (died 1084), popularly known as Ibn Gharsiya or Ibn García, was a Muwallad poet and katib (writer) in the Taifa court in Denia. Ibn Gharsiya is known as a proponent for the shu'ubiyya polemical thought in Al-Andalus, arguing in his Risala for the relative superiority of Byzantine and Persian culture over the culture of Arabs.
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