Abu Amir al-Balawi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad

أبو عامر البلوي محمد بن أحمد

1164 CE · 559 AH

An Andalusian vizier and secretary, a man of learning and a poet.

Depth

At a glance

Roles
Vizier · Poet
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
al-Andalus & Europe
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Ali ibn Isma'il al-Abyari · Al-Anbari, Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad · al-Azdi al-Qurtubi · al-Baghdadi Malik al-Nuhat al-Hasan ibn Safi

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موجز

الوزير الكاتب أبو عامر محمد بن أحمد بن عامر البلوي، وزير وكاتب أندلسي من أهل العلم، وصاحب شعر. توفي سنة 559هـ بحسب موسوعة أعلام العلماء والأدباء. 1

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People and things also explored

al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant· Arab naming of children after plants· The delegation of Banu Tamim and the boasting contest· Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's pardon and recitation of Banat Su'ad· Khuza'a's appeal to Medina· Salim ibn Umayr's mission to kill Abu Afak· Umayr ibn Adi al-Khatmi's mission to kill Asma' bint Marwan· The killing of Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf

Sources

  1. 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. “Abu Amir al-Balawi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abu-amir-muhammad-ibn-ahmad-al-balawi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.

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al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant

Al-Hamdani's register of the peninsula's tongues records that the highland Himyar and Ja'da keep 'something of tanahmir' — Himyaritic speech — eliding consonants: 'bi-bn Ma'am' for 'bi-bn al-'amm', 'simmi'' for 'isma''. He counts Kinda and Hamdan the most eloquent of the south, says Mahra's speech resembles the 'ajam's, and names Nahj, Abyan and Dathina the purest — the earliest detailed witness to Old Himyaritic surviving on fourth-century tongues.