Bahāʾ al-Dīn: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Abū al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf ibn Rāfiʿ ibn Shaddād Bahāʾ al-Dīn
Born	1145 • Mosul • Iraq
Died	1235 (aged 90) • Aleppo • Syria
Subjects Of Study	jihad

al-Buḥturī

Arab author

Abū Nuwās

Persian poet

al-Ghazālī

Muslim jurist, theologian, and mystic

Ibn al-ʿArabī

Muslim mystic

Ameen Rihani

Arab American author and political figure

Imruʾ al-Qays

Arab poet

al-Maʿarrī

Arab poet

al-Farazdaq

Islamic poet

Ibn Isḥāq

Arab author

al-Ḥarīrī

Islamic scholar

Iliya Abu Madi

Arab writer

Jarīr

Arab poet

Ibn al-Fāriḍ

Arab poet

al-Nābighah al-Dhubyānī

Arab poet

Ṭarafah ibn al-ʿAbd

Arabian poet

al-Khansāʾ

Arab poet

Bahāʾ al-Dīn Zuhayr

Arab poet

al-Hamdānī

Arab author

Ibn Qutaybah

Muslim author

al-Akhṭal

Umayyad poet