Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Poet
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Review
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Summary
Taj al-Dawla Ja'far ibn Thiqat al-Dawla Yusuf ibn 'Abdallah al-Kalbi, lord of Sicily; an adib and poet, author of the famous verses on two pages, one in red brocade and one in black: 'I see two full moons risen upon two branches / in mother-of-pearl, and in two robes dyed / by the dyer of the limit and the pupil' — he composed them in 527. 1
Sources
- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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islam.museum contributors. “Ja'far ibn Thiqat al-Dawla”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/jaafar-ibn-thiqat-al-dawla/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.