Al-Tighnari moved to Seville after the Almoravids conquered Granada and is said to have pursued his studies there in 1100.[1] In Seville, he was part of Ibn Bassal's group of agronomists and botanists.[10] He became part of a group of poets and naturalists in the Sevillian court who were studying under common masters, including the Toledo agronomist Ibn Bassal and the Sevillian physician Abu l-Hasan Sihab.