الراعي النميري

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Roles: Poet
Era: The Umayyad Period
Region: Arabia
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Ubayd ibn Husayn al-Numayri, whose kunya was Abu Jundal, and who was known as al-Ra'i for his frequent description of camels in his poetry. He was one of the senior poets of his age ¹.

His poetry

He praised Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, and joined al-Farazdaq in satirising Jarir ¹.

The author holds that he was an Umayyad for the sake of his people, and that he wished Abd al-Malik to lift from them the injustice of the tax-collectors ².

Sources

The Umayyad State: Factors of Prosperity and Consequences of Collapse — Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi (Part Two, 2005) , p.42
The Umayyad State: Factors of Prosperity and Consequences of Collapse — Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi (Part Two, 2005) , p.43

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islam.museum contributors. “الراعي النميري”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ubayd-ibn-husayn-al-numayri/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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