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Ibn Sakra

ابن سكرة

995 CE · 385 AH

Ibn Sakra (d. 385) — the Baghdadi satirist-poet, a descendant of Ali b. al-Mahdi the Abbasid; al-Tha'alibi calls him a master of wit and lampoon; his diwan was said to reach fifty thousand verses 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · Abd Allah ibn Zaydun · Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad · القاضي أبو بكر ابن الدقاق البغدادي

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  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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