Poetry remained a living cultural reality among Andalusi refugees in North Africa.

Evidence

Al-Maqqari was a member of a family from Spain that settled in Tetuan. His compilation of these verse anthologies in the seventeenth century has something of antiquarianism about it, but leaves us in no doubt that poetry continued to be a living reality to Arabic-speakers from al-Andalus. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 756