Nusayb the Poet
نصيب الشاعر
Nusayb — the black slave-poet of Wadi al-Qura who bought his freedom by praising Abd al-Aziz b. Marwan; at Sulayman b. Abd al-Malik's court he outshone al-Farazdaq, who conceded 'he is the best poet of his kind' 1.
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- Era
- The Umayyad Period
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Sources
- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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