Al-Jara'i, Ahmad ibn Abd al-Salam

الجراوي أحمد بن عبد السلام

1212 CE · 609 AH

From Jarawa in the Maghrib, known for poetry and learning.

Depth

At a glance

Roles
Poet · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Maghreb
Review
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Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: أبو المحاسن الشواء · Ali ibn Isma'il al-Abyari · أحمد البدوي · Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Tifashi · Al-Baydawi, Abd Allah ibn Umar

Literature

Place in the story

  • PoetTradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

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موجز

أبو العباس أحمد بن عبد السلام الجراوي شاعر وعالم من أهل جراوة بالمغرب، اشتهر بالشعر والعلم. وتذكر الموسوعة أن وفاته كانت سنة 609هـ (1212م). 1

التاريخ مسجل على أنه من المروي، ويحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي. وأخباره وشعره يحتاجان إلى مصدر إضافي.

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
Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “Al-Jara'i, Ahmad ibn Abd al-Salam”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ahmad-al-jarai/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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People

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Related

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.