Muḥammad ibn Hāniʾ
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Arabic literaturePanegyricThe Andalusian poet Ibn Hāniʾ undoubtedly enraged the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad when he referred to the capture of Cairo by the Fāṭimid dynasty:
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Islamic artsAchievements in the western Muslim worldIbn Hāniʾ (died 973) of Sevilla (Seville) has been praised as the western counterpart of al-Mutanabbī, largely because of his eulogies of the Fatimid caliph al-Muʿizz, who at that time still resided in North Africa. The entertaining prose style of Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih (died 940)…
Read MoreIbn Hāniʾ (died 973) of Sevilla (Seville) has been praised as the western counterpart of al-Mutanabbī, largely because of his eulogies of the Fatimid caliph al-Muʿizz, who at that time still resided in North Africa. The entertaining prose style of Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih (died 940)…
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SpainLiterature…above all these, however, was Muḥammad ibn Hāniʾ, nicknamed the “Mutanabbī of the West” (Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Mutanabbī was a 10th-century poet of Iraq), who by virtue of his religious ideas was obliged to forsake his native land and enter into the service of the Fāṭimid caliph al-Muʿizz. In the 10th…
Read More…above all these, however, was Muḥammad ibn Hāniʾ, nicknamed the “Mutanabbī of the West” (Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Mutanabbī was a 10th-century poet of Iraq), who by virtue of his religious ideas was obliged to forsake his native land and enter into the service of the Fāṭimid caliph al-Muʿizz. In the 10th…
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