text:  The reign of Al-hakem was the Augustan age of Andalusian literature; and besides the numerous learned men whom the fame of his father's and his own liberality with the security of their rule had attracted to Spain from other regions of Islam we find in the pages of Al-Makkari an extensive list of native authors principally in the departments of poetry history and philology who are said to be "a few only of the most eminent who flourished during this reign"--but none of their names however noted in their own day are known in modern Europe