Muslim ibn al-Walid
Abu al-Walīd Muslim ibn al-Walīd al-Anṣārī (c. 130 H/748 AD– 207 H/823 AD), also known as Ṣarī‘ al-Ghawānī ("The One Knocked Down by the Fair"), was among the finest poets of the early Abbasid period, and mawla of the Ansar. He moved to Baghdad in the reign of Harun al-Rashid before the Barmakid debacle of 187 H/794 AD. He gained favour by Al Fadl bin Sahl, a wazeer in the reign of the seventh Abbasid caliph al-Maʾmūn and was appointed as a postmaster in Jurjān (Gorgan in present-day Iran) by al-Maʾmūn and remained and later in Isfahan.
Muslim ibn al-Walid
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- 753
- Died
- 823
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Abu al-Walīd Muslim ibn al-Walīd al-Anṣārī (c. 130 H/748 AD– 207 H/823 AD), also known as Ṣarī‘ al-Ghawānī ("The One Knocked Down by the Fair"), was among the finest poets of the early Abbasid period, and mawla of the Ansar. He moved to Baghdad in the reign of Harun al-Rashid before the Barmakid debacle of 187 H/794 AD. He gained favour by Al Fadl bin Sahl, a wazeer in the reign of the seventh Abbasid caliph al-Maʾmūn and was appointed as a postmaster in Jurjān (Gorgan in present-day Iran) by al-Maʾmūn and remained and later in Isfahan.
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He withdrew from poetry after Al Fadl was murdered and led a lonely life until his death. He is buried in Gorgan.
• M. J. de Goeje's edition (1875) *
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753
Muslim ibn al-Walid born at Kufa.
823
Muslim ibn al-Walid died.
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- 1.Goldziher, Ignác. A Short History of Arabic Literature. 57. 1959.
- 2.Bonebakker, S. A. Abbasid Belles Lettres. 396. 1990.
- 3.Kilpatrick, Hilary. Making the Great Book of Songs: Compilation and the Author's Craft in Abû l-Faraj al-Isbahânî's Kitâb al-aghânî. Routledge. 337. 2003.
- 4.Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature. 2. 557. 1998.
- 5.Brockelmann, Carl. History of the Arabic Written Tradition: Supplement Volume 1. 118. 2017.
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