Al-Mutanabbi, Greatest poet of Arabic: Scholar in Islamic History

Scholar

ScholarGreatest poet of Arabic

Al-Mutanabbiالمتنبي

915-965 CEApproximate dateAleppo

A poet of Kufa whose verses are counted the summit of classical Arabic poetry.

Born in Kufa, he wandered as a young man and was jailed for leading a revolt. At the Aleppo court of Sayf al-Dawla he wrote his finest praise of the Hamdanid wars against Byzantium. He was killed by bandits near Baghdad, reportedly after a line of his own poetry shamed him out of fleeing.

What grew out of it?

Arabic speakers still quote his lines as proverbs.

Who else is linked?

Aleppo Sayf al-Dawla Abbasid Caliphate

Who lived at the same time?

Al-Muttaqi Al-Radi Abd al-Rahman III Al-Mustakfi Al-Qahir Sayf al-Dawla Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah Al-Muqtadir

Source: history · Wikipedia

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