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Name
  
Abbas al-Ahnaf

Role
  
Poet


Died
  
809 AD

Parents
  
Al-Ahnaf Ibn Al-Aswad

Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf alabbas Ibn AlAhnaf Poetry Pinterest Poem quotes Arabic

Abu al-Fadl Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf, (750 in Basra-809), Arabic, عباس بن الأحنف, was an Arab Abbasid poet from the clan of Hanifa. His work consists solely of love poems (ghazal). It is "primarily concerned with the hopelessness of love, and the personae in his compositions seems resigned to a relationship of deprivation". The vocabulary he chose was simple and his style is fluent and easy.

He grew up in Baghdad, where he became a friend of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid. who employed him for the purpose of amusing him in time of leisure. His work was an acknowledged influence on Abdullah ibn al-Mu'tazz and Abu al-Atahiya.

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Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf Wikipedia


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