Career
He was the secretary of one of the two kings of the Taifa of Badajoz (governoring in Évora) Umar ibn Mohammed al-Muwakkil (1078) of the Berber Miknasa Aftasid dynasty. He wrote a diwan. One of his best known poems is a qasida (elegy) on the downfall of the house of the Aftasids, known as al-Qasidah al-bassamah or sometimes the Abduniyya. Ibn Badrun (died 1211), himself a well known poet of First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Andalus, wrote a lengthy commentary on the poems and prose of Ibn Abdun (Cup of the Flower and Shell of the Pearl), translated and edited by Reinhart Dozy in 1848.
J. Mattock, « Reconsideration of the " Abduniyya"», in: Actas delXII Congreso de la UEAI, Mâlaga 1984, Madrid, Instituto Hispanodrabe de Cultura, 1986, p.
537-558.
Sharh Qasidat al-wazir al-katib fīl-adab wa-al-maratib li-AbīAbd al-Majid ibn Abdun, by Abd al-Malik ibn Abd Allah Ibn Badrun. Mahmud Hasan Shaybani.
Abd al-Majid ibn Abd Allah Ibn Abdun, educated: al-Riyad: M.H. al-Shaybanī, 1993. Abd al-Malik ibn Abd Allah Ibn Badrun, Sharh qasidat Ibn Abdun al-marufah bi-al-basamah fīal-tarikh wa-al-adab, Cairo: Mahbaat al-Saadah, 1921/22
María José Rebollo Avalos, Louisiana cultura en el reino Taifa de Badajoz: Ibn Abdun de Evora (m 530/1135), Departamento de Publicaciones de la Excma.
Diputación Provincial de Badajoz, 1997
José Mohedano Barceló, Ibn Abdun de Evora, c.
1050-1135: breve apresentacão e seleccão dos seus poemas, Evora: Universidade de Evora, 1982.