Ibn al-Mu'tazz

Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz was born in Samarra in 861, into the family of the Abbasid caliphs: he was the son of the caliph al-Mu'tazz. His poetry, which sings of hunting, wine and the pleasures of the court, places him among the great poets of the Abbasid period, and he also compiled notices on the poets of his century. In December 908, a faction of the court proclaimed him caliph; overthrown the same day, he went into hiding and died soon after. The chronicles call him the caliph of a day and a night.

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• Essayكتاب البديعIbn al-Mu'tazz · 887not translated into EnglishLiterature