Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Poet
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Review
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Life in time
Summary
Abu'l-Fityan Muhammad ibn Sultan ibn Muhammad ibn Hayyus al-Ghanawi, surnamed Mustafa al-Dawla; he was called 'the amir' because his father was one of the Arab amirs; one of the handsome Syrian poets and foremost masters, with a large diwan; he met several of Aleppo's Mirdasid kings and praised them — his most famous ode is his ra'iyya on Nasr ibn Salih ibn Mirdas, consoling him for his father while praising him; he was the shaykh of the poet Ibn al-Khayyat. 1
Sources
- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Hayyus”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-hayyus/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.