Lectures on his Diwan at Baghdad, 353/964

المتنبي يقرأ ديوانه ببغداد، ٣٥٣هـ/٩٦٤م

c. 964 CE · c. 353 AH

Baghdad

In Baghdad al-Mutanabbi thought of attaching himself to the famous Buyid vizier al-Muhallabi, who had gathered a brilliant court, but abandoned hope in face of the hostility of the court's poets and scholars, among them Ibn al-Hajjaj and Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani, author of the Kitab al-Aghani. He spent the year 353/964 giving lectures in which he expounded to a group of friends the work he had done to that date 1.

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Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq

In time

950960970980 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

In space

Baghdad

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Overview

In Baghdad al-Mutanabbi thought of attaching himself to the famous Buyid vizier al-Muhallabi, who had gathered a brilliant court, but abandoned hope in face of the hostility of the court's poets and scholars, among them Ibn al-Hajjaj and Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani, author of the Kitab al-Aghani. He spent the year 353/964 giving lectures in which he expounded to a group of friends the work he had done to that date 1.

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Had participant
al-Mutanabbi
Occurred at
Baghdad
During the reign of
al-Muti li-llah al-Fadl ibn al-Muqtadir

People and things also explored

Al-Hakim's journey to Iraq and the Hijaz, 341/952· Sunni-Shi'i Strife at Bab al-Taq in 348· Earthquakes and Locusts in Iraq in 347· The war of Nasir al-Dawla and Mu'izz al-Dawla for Baghdad (334-335 AH / 946)· Mu'izz al-Dawla builds the Dar al-Saltana in Baghdad· The Buyids enter Baghdad and receive their titles, 334 AH· Al-Daraqutni dictates the 'Ilal to al-Barqani at Ibn Hamdan's gatherings, about 360/971· The Karkh strife between Sunnis and Shi'is, 338

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 7 p. 770-771
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Al-Hakim's journey to Iraq and the Hijaz, 341/952

In 341/952-3 al-Hakim travelled to Iraq a few months after the death of his shaykh Isma'il al-Saffar; he performed the hajj and journeyed through the lands of Khurasan and beyond the Oxus. His shaykhs numbered about a thousand in Nishapur alone and about a thousand more in Iraq and the other lands.