At a glance
- Roles
- Poet · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
- PoetTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Dawud al-Balawi al-Wadi Ashi, a philologist, man of letters and poet from Wadi Ash, who belongs to the Bali tribe. The encyclopaedia gives his birth as 866 AH and his death as 938 AH. 1
People and things also explored
Abd al-Qadir al-Baghdadi· al-Basri Abu al-Qasim Ali ibn Hamza· Ibn al-Khurasani Abu al-Izz Muhammad ibn Muhammad· Ibn Jabir al-Andalusi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad· al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant· Aljamia (aljamiado: Spanish written in Arabic script, and its literature)· Arab naming of children after plants· The wise sayings attributed to Ali
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.84
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Balawi, Ahmad ibn Ali”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-balawi-ahmad-ibn-ali/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.