Abd al-Ghaffar, poet of the state of al-Hakim

عبد الغفار شاعر دولة الحاكم

c. 1004 CE · 26 Muharram 395 AH

Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Ghaffar, poet of the state of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah al-Ubaydi in Egypt. Al-Hakim killed him together with a group of notables, in a single chamber, and burned them with fire 1.

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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Jabbar al-Hamadhani · Abd al-Malik Ibn Attash · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · Abd Allah ibn Zaydun

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  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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