Kuthayyir
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Kuthayyir ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Mulahi (ca. 660-ca. 723), commonly known as Kuthayyir 'Azza (Arabic: كثيّر عزّة) was an Arab 'Udhri poet of the Umayyad period from the tribe of Azd.[1] He was born in Madina and resided in Hijaz and Egypt. In his poems he was occupied with his unfullfilled love to a married woman named 'Azza. Favorite topics in his poetry are love and panegyrics. He made acquaintance of the governor 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Marwan and the caliphs Abd al-Malik, Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz and Yazid II.[2] He is mentioned as one of the followers of the now-extinct Kaysaniyya sect of Shi'ism, which held that Ali's third son Muhammad ibn Al-Hanafiyya would return as the Mahdi.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Ibn Khallikan. wafayat alayan p. 524. alwarraq edition.
- ^ Starkey and Meisami. Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, Routledge, 1998.
- ^ Morony, Michael G. Iraq After the Muslim Conquest. p. 491-492.
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