Kuthayyir
Kuthayyir ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥman (Arabic: كثير بن عبد الرحمن) (c. 660 – c. 723), commonly known as Kuthayyir ‘Azzah (Arabic: كثيّر عزّة) was an Arab poet of the Umayyad period from the tribe of Azd.[1] He was born in Medina and resided in Hijaz and Egypt. In his poems he was occupied with his unfulfilled 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 ibn Marwan, 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]
References[]
- ^ Ibn Khallikan. wafayat alayan p. 524. alwarraq edition.
- ^ Starkey and Meisami. Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, Routledge, 1998.
- ^ Michael G. Morony Iraq After the Muslim Conquest. p. 491-492.
See also[]
- Jamil ibn Ma'mar
- List of Arabic language poets
- List of Shi'a Muslims
Categories:
- Poets from the Umayyad Caliphate
- Love in Arabic literature
- Shia Muslims
- 660 births
- 723 deaths
- Azd
- 7th-century Arabs
- 8th-century Arabs
- Middle Eastern writer stubs