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Jafar ibn Ulba al-Harithi

جعفر بن علبة الحارثي

760~

Fars

A poet of Banu al-Harith ibn Ka'b; the footnote in the Hamasa edition describes him as a poet of little verse, a love-poet and horseman renowned among his people, one who lived under both the Umayyad and Abbasid states and was killed in a retaliation whose cause is disputed {1}.

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Roles
Poet
Region
Arabia

Life in time

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Aban al-Ahmar · 'Abbada, Ja'far's mother · Abbas ibn Muhammad · Abd al-Ala al-Sadafi · Abd al-Aziz ibn Abi Hazim

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Fars

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Fars

People and things also explored

Baha' al-Din al-'Amili (al-Bahai, 953–1030/1547–1621)· the conquest of Fasa and Darabjird (24 AH)· The Joint Conquests of Fars· al-Layth al-Saffar seizes Fars and Shiraz, 297· The Atabeg Sa'd of Fars and his sons· Shamla takes Fārs — and is driven out of it· Muwatta 755· Abd al-Haqq Amanat Khan

Sources

  1. Diwan al-Hamasa of Abu Tammam (1916 edition) , p.11
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Baha' al-Din al-'Amili (al-Bahai, 953–1030/1547–1621)

Baha' al-Din al-'Amili, Muhammad b. Husayn, known as al-Bahai (953-1030 AH, 1547-1621 CE). From Jabal 'Amila in Syria, he moved to Persia and obtained an honoured place at the court of Shah 'Abbas. His best-known work is the anthology al-Kashkul, and he also wrote a Persian exposition of Shi'i fiqh, the Jami'-i 'Abbasi.