Al-Mutanabbi

Abu al-Tayyib al-Mutanabbi was born in Kufa in 915 and began to compose verses very early. After the sack of his city by the Qarmatians, he lived among the Bedouin tribes and learned their speech. He claimed to be a prophet, led a revolt in Syria and was imprisoned in Homs, hence his nickname, the one who claims to be a prophet. Having entered the service of the Hamdanid emir of Aleppo in 948, he remained with him for nine years, then went on to Egypt to Kafur, and died in 965 on the road to Baghdad.

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• Poetryديوان المتنبيAl-Mutanabbi · 950not translated into EnglishLiterature