Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mutanabbī al-Kindī, commonly known as al-Mutanabbi, was an Abbasid-era Arab poet at the court of the Hamdanid emir Sayf al-Dawla in Aleppo, for whom he composed 300 folios of poetry.
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An Arabic manuscript with the Diwan of Mutanabbi (Sharh Diwan Al-Mutanabbi), by the scribal scholar Abu-I-Tayyib Ahmad Ibn al-Hussain, c. 1300 AD, origin unknown
Diwan of the poetry of Al-Mutanabbi from early 14th century Iran, Khalili Collection of Islamic Art
A statue of the poet in Mutanabbi Street
Gate of Al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad.Writers born in the 920s 6
About this person
Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mutanabbī al-Kindī, commonly known as al-Mutanabbi, was an Abbasid-era Arab poet at the court of the Hamdanid emir Sayf al-Dawla in Aleppo, for whom he composed 300 folios of poetry. His poetic style earned him great popularity in his time and many of his poems are not only still widely read in today's Arab world but are considered to be proverbial.
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 920 to 965 · aged 45
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25 languages
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