Ibn Nubata

Research on Ibn Nubata's work is still in its infancy. The son of a Hadith scholar and from early youth his interest in poetry emerged in short poems he wrote. Ibn Nubata was born in Fusṭāṭ, in 1316 he left Cairo for Damascus and lived there until 1360, taking short stays in Hama and Aleppo. However, the Sultan An-Nasir Hasan ordered his return to Cairo. Ibn Nubata, alongside Ṣafīddīn al-Ḥillī, was one of the two most celebrated Arab poets of the 14th century. Nubata died on October 14, 1366 (8 Safar 768 AH), and is buried in the Qalawun cemetery of Al-Mansur Qalawun. Ibn Nubāta was a seminal writer in the development of the epigrammatic poetic form known as maqṭūʿ: al-Qaṭr an-Nubātī is thought to be the first sole-authored collection of poems in this genre.

• Name — Ibn Nubata • Birth Name — Abu Bakr Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Khaṭīb ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Nubāta • Born — April 1287 • Birthplace — Cairo, Egypt • Died — 14 October 1366 (aged 79) • Place of death — Cairo, Egypt • Occupation — Poet • Language — Arabic • Notable Works — al-Qaṭr an-Nubātī