Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Poet
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Taqi al-Din Ibn Abi'l-Yusr, the poet, has his famous ode elegizing Baghdad in 656 — among its lines: "He who asks the tears for news of Baghdad — why do you linger when the loved ones have departed? You who set out for the Fair City, press on no further: neither the folk nor the dwellings are there" — and: "The cross rose over the highest of her pulpits, and he whom a zunnar girds now commands." 1
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 279-280
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Taqi al-Din Ibn Abi al-Yusr”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/taqi-al-din-ibn-abi-al-yusr/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.