At a glance
- Roles
- Poet
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Review
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Life in time
Overview
Abu Sa'id al-Mu'ayyad b. Muhammad b. 'Ali b. Muhammad al-Alusi, the famous poet; among the notables of his age's poets, abundant in love-verse and satire — he praised a company of Iraq's chiefs and has a diwan. Ibn al-Najjar mentions him in Tarikh Baghdad: born at Alus, a village near al-Haditha, raised at Dujayl, entered Baghdad and became a jawish in al-Mustarshid's days, attaching himself to the vizier 'Awn al-Din Yahya b. Hubayra with fine panegyrics on him. 1
His misfortune
Then fortune tripped him and he was imprisoned; Ibn Khallikan met him in 555, his sight veiled by the darkness of the matmura in which he was held. 1
Sources
- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Mu'ayyad al-Alusi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-alusi-abu-said-al-muayyad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.