At a glance
- Roles
- Poet
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Summary
Al-Fadl ibn Abd al-Samad ibn al-Fadl, Abu al-Abbas al-Raqqashi, was a poet from Basra. He came to Baghdad, praised Harun al-Rashid, and glorified al-Amin and the Barmakids. 1
He and Abu Nuwas traded satirical verse, and neither gave up on the other until death separated them. It is one of the well-known satirical exchanges of Abbasid poetry. 1
Al-Mubarrad said: al-Fadl al-Raqqashi was a poet who would show wealth while he was poor, show honour while he was humble, and pretend to abundance while he had little, so the poets used to satirise him. 1
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Sources
- Tarikh Baghdad — al-Khatib al-Baghdadi , j.10 p.345
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islam.museum contributors. “Al-Fadl al-Raqqashi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-fadl-al-raqqashi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.