Ibn al-Khatib

Ibn al-Khatib (1313–1374) was an Arab-Andalusi poet, historian, physician and vizier of the Nasrid Emirate of Granada. After his father and brother died at the Battle of Río Salado in 1340, he became vizier to Yusuf I, later serving Muhammad V.

Arrested after a coup in 1359, he went into exile in Morocco, returning when Muhammad regained the throne in 1362. His poems adorn the Alhambra, and his history of Granada, al-Ihata, was completed in 1369.

Exiled to Morocco a second time, he was arrested on a heresy charge in 1374 and strangled in prison at Fes, where his body was burned.