Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Poet
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
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Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Jalal al-Din Ibn al-ʿUlayf
Jalal al-Din Ibn al-ʿUlayf of Mecca. He was born in Hali in 742 AH, settled in Mecca, and heard from al-Mizzi and Ibn Jamaʿa. He was strongly partisan in his Shiʿism and practised verse, in which he excelled. He agreed with his fellow extremists in some matters. He praised the kings of Yemen and the amirs of Mecca and Yanbu, attached himself to Hasan ibn ʿAjlan in Mecca, and wrote poems in praise of al-Nasir li-Din Allah, the ruler of Sanʿa.
He died on the seventh of Rajab 1.
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 120-121
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islam.museum contributors. “Jalal al-Din Ibn al-'Ulayf”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-ulayf/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-18.