At a glance
- Roles
- Poet
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Overview
'Isa al-Hajari, the soldier of the ajnad families of Irbil, called al-Hajari for Hajar al-Bayda which he praised often in verse though he was not of it; his diwan — tenderness prevails — holds fine meanings, spanning verse, dubayt and mawaliya, excelling in all three though few excel across the set. 1
His killing
He was held in Khafatid citadel then Irbil's; released, he attached himself to Muzaffar al-Din, lord of Irbil, advanced at his court and dressed as a sufi. When Muzaffar al-Din died and Irbil fell to al-Mustansir's realm, a man fell upon him before noon and stabbed him with a knife — while struggling with death he wrote to its deputy Batkin complaining — and died that day. 1
Connections
- Died in
- Arbil (Erbil)
People and things also explored
death of Zayn al-Din Yusuf of Irbil — Muzaffar al-Din Kokburi succeeds· A Mongol detachment reaches Irbil and Daquqa· The Tatars Take Arbil by the Sword in 634 AH· Fakhr al-Din al-Irbili· Arbil (Erbil)
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 156-158
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Hajari al-Irbili”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-hajari-isa/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.