Abū l-Qāsim Khalaf b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Masʿūd b. Mūsà b. Bashkuwāl (b. Yūsuf) b. Dāḥa b. Dāka b. Naṣr b. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Wāqid al-Anṣārī, known as Ibn Bashkuwāl (494-578/1101-1183), was born in Córdoba. He was a historian and traditionist, renowned mainly for his Kitāb al-ṣila , a biographic dictionary of Andalusī scholars from the era of the Taifas (400-79/1010-86), the Almoravids (r. 454-541/1062-1147), and the advent of Almohad rule (524-668/1130-1269). Little is