al-Zahi
الزاهي الشاعر
930 CE · 318 AH – 973 CE · 362 AH
Al-Zahi, Abu al-Qasim Ali b. Ishaq (318–362) — Baghdad's celebrated descriptive poet, a cloth-merchant of Qati'at al-Rabi' who praised Sayf al-Dawla and the vizier al-Muhallabi 1.
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At a glance
- Roles
- Poet
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
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Sources
- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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