In these excerptsfromQuḍāt Qurṭuba, Khushanī reports that the Cordoban Umayyad poet al-Ghazāl (156–250/772–864) used his verses to attack the judge Jukhāmir b. ʿUthmān al-Shaʿbānī, whom he considered ignorant and foolish. In her chapter in Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts, Maribel Fierro uses this report to show that judges and scholars also became figures of ridicule in Islamic folklore. In particular, they were satirized by poets, which sometimes led to the poet’s being punished by the mocked judge.
This source is part of the Online Companion to the book Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts, ed. Intisar A. Rabb and Abigail Krasner Balbale(ILSP/HUP 2017)—a collection of primary sources and other material used in and related to the book.