Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Poet · Physician · writer
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Taqi al-Din Shabib — the skilled adib, brilliant poet, physician and oculist, brother of Najm al-Din Ahmad b. Hamdan b. Shabib al-Harrani; he answered "Banat Su'ad" with a great ode opening: "A glory imagination fails to reach its utmost — and renders men's reason a thing intelligible" 1.
Connections
- Sibling of
- Najm al-Din ibn Shabib
People and things also explored
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 749
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Taqi al-Din Shabib, poet-oculist”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/taqi-al-din-shabib/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.