At a glance
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
In time
In space
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Overview
At the beginning of 337/948 al-Mutanabbi established himself at the Hamdanid court in Aleppo as official poet of the amir Sayf al-Dawla, staying nine years. He was genuinely attached to this patron, in his eyes the ideal Arab chief — brave, magnanimous, generous — who in turn overwhelmed him with gifts and never treated him with arrogance. The poet accompanied his expeditions and sang his exploits against the Byzantines and the desert Bedouins; Eastern critics generally hold the poems of this period the summit of his art 1.
Connections
- Had participant
- al-Mutanabbi· Sayf al-Dawla
- Occurred at
- Aleppo
- During the reign of
- al-Muti li-llah al-Fadl ibn al-Muqtadir
People and things also explored
Al-Mutanabbi's secret flight from Aleppo, c. 346/958· Byzantine capture of Aleppo· Ibn Nubata al-Fariqi, 'preacher of preachers'· Battle of Sayf al-Dawla with the Domesticus in 343· The killing of al-Mutanabbi (354 AH)· al-Muqaddasi's journey to Aleppo, c. 354–364/965–975· Lectures on his Diwan at Baghdad, 353/964· Sack of Aleppo
Sources
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 7 p. 770
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Mutanabbi joins Sayf al-Dawla at Aleppo, 337/948”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/mutanabbi-aleppo-sayf-337/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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