al-As'ad ibn Mammati · Islam Museum

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Roles: katib · Poet
Era: The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Muwaffaq al-Din Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi · Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi · Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abdallah al-Yunini · Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi

Overview

Abu'l-Makaram al-As'ad, Zakariya b. Abi Qudama b. Abi Malih, Mammati of Egypt, katib and poet; he was inspector of the diwans in Egypt, with virtues and many works — he versified the sira of Sultan Salah al-Din and versified Kalila wa-Dimna, and has a diwan Ibn Khallikan saw in his son's hand and transmitted from. Al-'Imad al-Isfahani mentions him in the Kharida with excerpts; the family were Christians who embraced Islam at the start of the Salahi kingship. ¹

Sources

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

Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali

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