Muhammad ibn Hani

Muhammad ibn Hani al-Andalusi al-Azdi,, usually called Ibn Hani, was an Andalusī Sunni poet and the chief court poet to the Fatimid Caliph al-Mu'izz. Most of his collected poems are in praise of the Fatimids against the claims of the Abbasids and the Umayyads of Iberia. He was also called al-Mutanabbi of the West by many of his contemporaries as well as later historians. Ibn Hani was murdered on his way from Egypt in c. 973.