Shams al-Dīn AbūʿAbdallāh Muḥammad Ibn Dāniyāl b. Yūsuf al-Khuzā ʿī al-Mawsịlī, commonly referred to as Muḥammad Ibn Dāniyāl, was an Arab poet and playwright who became well known in Egypt during the Middle Ages.
Writers born in the 1230s 6
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Shams al-Dīn AbūʿAbdallāh Muḥammad Ibn Dāniyāl b. Yūsuf al-Khuzā ʿī al-Mawsịlī, commonly referred to as Muḥammad Ibn Dāniyāl, was an Arab poet and playwright who became well known in Egypt during the Middle Ages. His trilogy of shadow puppetry plays are the first from the medieval era to be translated from Arabic to English.
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1238 to 1310 · aged 72
Written about in
6 languages
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