At a glance
- Roles
- Poet
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Jalnak, the famous Aleppan poet; the Tatars captured him at Aleppo and asked him of the Muslim army — he magnified it and multiplied it for them, and they killed him 1.
Connections
- Died in
- Aleppo
People and things also explored
the Ayyubid shuffle — al-Adil to Aleppo, al-Aziz to Egypt· Al-Farabi at Sayf al-Dawla's court· al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ moved to Aleppo — Saʿd al-Dīn Kumashtakīn seizes the regency· The exchange of Aleppo, from Mosul to Sinjar· Battle of Azaz· Byzantine capture of Aleppo· Conquest of Aleppo (15 AH)· Death of al-Malik al-Zahir of Aleppo
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 795
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Abu Jalnak, the Aleppan poet”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abu-jalnak/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.