Abu Bakr al-Khwarazmi
أبو بكر الخوارزمي
993 CE · 383 AH
Abu Bakr al-Khwarazmi (d. 383) — nephew of the historian al-Tabari; master of letters and genealogy, author of a famous diwan of rasa'il and verse; the celebrated anecdote of his riddle to al-Sahib Ibn Abbad ('men's poetry or women's?') and their bitter parting 1.
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- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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