Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Poet · Scholar
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Maghreb
- Review
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Life in time
Overview
Abu'l-Hasan al-Husri, muqri' and poet resident of Ceuta — 'Ali b. 'Abd al-Ghani al-Fihri, nephew of Abu Ishaq al-Husri author of Zahr al-adab; an exacting muqri' and brilliant blind poet — he left al-Qayrawan after its ruin and the taifa kings vied for him, then Tangier took him in. 1
His readings and verse
Versed in the readings and their paths, he taught them at Ceuta and beyond; his diwan includes the entrancing ode "O night of the lover, when will its morrow come?" He died in 488. 1
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 386-387
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islam.museum contributors. “Abu al-Hasan al-Husri, Ali ibn Abd al-Ghani al-Fihri”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-husri-abu-al-hasan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.