Aban al-Lahiqi
أبان اللاحقي
815~
A poet and man of letters from Basra who attached himself to the Barmakids and served as their poet; he versified the Kalila wa-Dimna in verse.
Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Poet · writer
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
- PoetTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
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Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “Aban al-Lahiqi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/aban-al-lahiqi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.