Ibn Quri'a · Islam Museum

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Era: The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Jabbar al-Hamadhani · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · Abd Allah ibn Zaydun · Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad

Summary

The qadi Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman, known as Ibn Quri'a al-Baghdadi; he belonged to the entourage of the vizier Abu Muhammad al-Muhallabi, devoted to him; famous for speed of reply and witty answers in the plainest words and sweetest rhymed prose; his recorded questions and answers fill a well-known book — the chiefs and virtuosi of his age would play with him, sending him strange and comic questions to which he answered on the spot, matching the question; al-Sahib Ibn 'Abbad marvelled at him when he attended the vizier al-Muhallabi's majlis. ¹

Sources

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

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islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Quri'a”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-quria/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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