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Abu al-Atahiya

Poet
Abū al-ʻAtāhiyya, full name Abu Ishaq Isma'il ibn al-Qasim ibn Suwayd Al-Anzi, was among the principal Arab poets of the early Islamic era, a prolific muwallad poet of ascetics who ranked with Bashshār and Abū Nuwās, whom he met. He renounced... Wikipedia
Born: 748 AD, Ayn al-Tamr, Iraq
Died: 828 AD (age 80 years), Baghdad, Iraq
Full name: Abu Isħaq Ismā'īl ibn Qāsim al-ʻAnazī
Notable works: Diwan
Other names: Abū Isḥāq Ismā’īl b. al-Qāsim b. Suwaid b. Kaisān al-Aini