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Zaki al-Din Ibn Abi al-Asba'

زكي الدين ابن أبي الأصبع

c. 1256 CE · 654 AH

Egyptian adib (d. 654) — author of Tahrir al-Tahbir fi al-Badi', a work without peer on rhetorical ornament 1.

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Roles
writer · Poet · Scholar
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Egypt & Nile
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abagha Khan · Abu al-Abbas al-Qurti · Abu Bakr ibn Qawam al-Balisi · Abu Shama al-Dimashqi · Afif al-Din al-Tilimsani

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    Overview

    Zaki al-Din Ibn Abi'l-'Asba', the Egyptian adib (d. 654); he authored Tahrir al-Tahbir fi'l-Badi' — its like unwritten — and has very fine passages of verse 1.

    Sources

    1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 273-274
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    islam.museum contributors. “Zaki al-Din Ibn Abi al-Asba'”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/zaki-al-din-ibn-abi-al-asba/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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