Al-A'lam al-Shantamari, Yusuf ibn Sulayman
الأعلم الشنتمري يوسف بن سليمان
1019 CE · 410 AH – 1084 CE · 477 AH† †
† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.
An Andalusian scholar from Shantamariyya al-Gharb, nicknamed al-A'lam for a wide split in his upper lip.
At a glance
- Roles
- Poet · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
- 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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People and things also explored
Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's pardon and recitation of Banat Su'ad· Khuza'a's appeal to Medina· The killing of Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf· Aban al-Lahiqi· Abbas ibn Mirdas al-Sulami· Abd al-Ghaffar al-Akhras· Abd al-Qadir al-Baghdadi· Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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