Ibn al-Sawwadi · Islam Museum

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Roles: Poet · katib
Era: The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Life in time

The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Ibn al-Kashshab al-Baghdadi · Ibn al-Manda'i al-Wasiti · Ibn Zubraj al-Utabi · al-Azdi al-Qurtubi

Summary

Abu'l-Faraj al-'Ala' b. 'Ali b. Muhammad b. 'Ali b. Ahmad b. 'Ubaydallah al-Wasiti, known as Ibn al-Sawwadi the katib-poet; an excellent, witty, dissolute poet of natural gift from a great house of his town, noted for writing, brilliance and ease — 'Imad al-Din al-Katib in the Kharida says he recited to me of himself...; and Ibn Khallikan admired a line of his and wove it into a dubayt. ¹

Sources

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

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