At a glance
- Roles
- Poet
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Place in the story
- PoetTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu al-Abbas Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Dinar al-Ahwal, a poet and philologist from Basra, mentioned in the "Classes of the Great Poets". 1
His place
The museum's data place him in the early Abbasid age, among the men of letters and language, in the Sunni school. 1
His birth and death dates, his teachers and his works need an additional source; the data do not record them.
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Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Ahwal, Abu al-Abbas”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-ahwal-muhammad-ibn-al-hasan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.