قصر العباس بن عمرو الغنوي

قصر العباس بن عمرو الغنوي

The palace between Sinjar and Nasibin built by al-Abbas ibn Amr al-Ghanawi of Tall Sayyar — builder of Raqqa and Ra's al-Ayn for Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik, governor of al-Yamama and Bahrayn, and the sole survivor when al-Mu'tadid sent him against the Qarmatians with ten thousand horse. Its wall became a chronicle of mutability: Sayf al-Dawla inscribed an elegy on it in 331, Ghadanfar ibn al-Hasan ibn Hamdan in 362, al-Muqallad ibn al-Musayyib in 388, and his son Qurwash in 401, who resolved to raze it as ill-omened, then spared it ¹.