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Jesús Cano
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Travelers of Al-Andalus, Part IV: al-Ghazal: From Constantinople to the Land of the Vikings
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July 15, 2015
Good looks and a fleet wit gave Al-Ghazal his name, which means “gazelle,” and in later years the poet and courtier of Córdoba proved a reluctant though dutiful envoy both east and, more notably, north.