Career
Ibn Amira was Qadi of Mallorca and worked for the Almohad sultan in Valencia and Sevilla and moved to Morocco in 1239/40 (after the fall of Valencia in 1238) and continued to work for the sultan there. The theme of paradise lost (al-firdaws al-mafqud) was expressed by the Valencian exile in his "Letter to a Friend". The city was so beautiful with its gardens and rivers, The nights were imbued with the sweet fragrance of narcissus."
Ibn Amira is also the author of a manuscript about the history of Mallorca, Tarij Mayurqa.
The manuscript (written between 1203 and 1232) is translated into Spanish by the historian Guillem Rosselló Bordoy.
