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- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
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Overview
At the beginning of 328/939 al-Mutanabbi became court poet to the amir Badr al-Kharshani — the Badr ibn Ammar of the Diwan — governor of Damascus for Ibn Ra'iq, who had just taken possession of Syria. Of Arab stock, Badr seemed to the poet the long-awaited Maecenas, and the panegyrics addressed to him carry sincere admiration; but intrigues of jealous rivals ended the friendship in about a year and a half, and al-Mutanabbi, no longer feeling safe, hid in the Syrian desert until Badr's departure for Iraq freed him 1.
Connections
- Had participant
- al-Mutanabbi
- Occurred at
- Damascus
- During the reign of
- al-Radi bi-llah Abu al-Abbas Muhammad ibn al-Muqtadir
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Sources
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 7 p. 770
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Court poet to Badr al-Kharshani at Damascus, 328/939”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/mutanabbi-badr-damascus-328/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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