Suleyman ibn Khalaf ibn Sa'd al-Baji al-Maliki (d.1081 AD), al-nasihat al-waladiyyah, (The Advice of Abu Walid Al-Baji to his Sons), a collection of wisdom, North Africa or Andalusia, 13th/14th century

Along with Ibn Hazm of Cordoba, Suleyman ibn Khalaf ibn Sa'd al-Baji al-Maliki was one of the most important literary figures in eleventh century Al-Andalus, even described as “one of the most eminent men in Spain” by Ibn Khallikan (d.1282) (Sarrió Cucarella 2012, p.2). He was born in Beja, modern day Portugal, but his family finally settled in Cordoba where he received training in the Islamic sciences at the age of twenty-three. In Mecca and Baghdad, he studied jurisprudence and hadith under prominent scholars such as Abu Dharr al-Harawi (d.1042), Abu l-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabari (d.1058) and Abu Isḥaq al-Shirazi (d.1083). He quickly gained a strong reputation as a scholar in his own right and became a prolific author (see ibid., pp.2-4 for a full biography of the author). For further recorded works by the author, see Brockelmann, GAL, I, p.534, and S.I, pp.743-4.