Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan al-Qayrawānī, called Ibn Rashīq (b. 390/1000, d. 456/1063-4 or 463/1071), was a North African Arabic-language poet and literary critic. The son of a Byzantine goldsmith, he was born in Masīla (also called al-Muḥammadiyya), near Constantine, in present-day Algeria. Demonstrating a talent for poetry as a child, he moved to al-Qayrawān (in present-day Tunisia) in 406/1015-6. Having studied under several teachers-including the grammarian Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar al-Qazzāz (d. 412/1021-2), the anthologist