Diwan al-Mutanabbi · Islam Museum

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Era: The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region: Levant & Iraq · Egypt & Nile
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The divan of Abu al-Tayyib al-Mutanabbi, in the Dar Beirut edition for printing and publishing (1983). It opens with an introduction describing the poet, which mentions his birth in Kufa, his residence in Syria, then Egypt, then Baghdad and Fars, and states that he died in 354 AH ¹ ².

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The edition is a local scanned copy. Its editor and any reference copy for it have not been verified. The page numbers given are the page numbers of the scanned file.

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Authored by: al-Mutanabbi

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The killing of al-Mutanabbi (354 AH)· al-Mutanabbi

Sources

Diwan al-Mutanabbi, Dar Beirut (1983) , p.5
Diwan al-Mutanabbi, Dar Beirut (1983) , p.6

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The killing of al-Mutanabbi (354 AH)

354: al-Mutanabbi, returning from Adud al-Dawla's court laden with gifts, was ambushed by Banu Dabba near al-Nu'maniyya on the Tigris. Three accounts of the motive — robbery, or the insult 'Sayf al-Dawla gave by nature; this was a strained gift'. An eyewitness: his son killed, he turned to flee until a servant quoted his own verse back at him — 'where is your line: the horses, the night and the desert know me?' — 'You have killed me', he said, 'by God I shall not be beaten today', wheeled back, slew their leader and died under the spears; his killer was Fatik ibn Abi al-Jahl al-Asadi.