“In the delicacy of her reconstruction this book is pure beauty, her dialogues are so wonderful that they become true.”

“With this intimate way of dealing with history, the poetry of the Spanish Islam opens a unknown world to us, strange and moving.”

“The Poet Kings by Catherine François is a beautiful text, very well written, that makes us dream with the cavalry of intelligence in the Arabic-Berber Andalucia of those days.”

“One of the most outstanding aspects of the work of Catherine François is, undoubtedly, her ability to transmit with mastery to us the importance of poetry in the courtly and popular culture of Al-Andalus. All her work is imbued with this poetic impulse that does not abandon us till the last line and, at the same time, is able to transmit to us the importance, almost obsession, of rhetoric and eloquence in the Al-Andalus culture.”