Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf
Abu al-Fadl Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf (
Abbasid poet from the tribe of Banu Hanifa. His work consists solely of love poems (ghazal). It is "primarily concerned with the hopelessness of love, and the personae in his compositions seems resigned to a relationship of deprivation".[1]
The vocabulary he chose was simple and his style is fluent and easy.
He grew up in Baghdad, where he became a friend of the Abbasid caliph
Abdullah ibn al-Mu'tazz and Abu al-Atahiya.[3]
References
- ^ Roger Allen. (2000). An Introduction to Arabic Literature. p. 106.
- ^ R. Jacobi. (1998) al-'Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf. In Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature (Vol. 1, pp. 2-3). Taylor & Francis.
- ISBN 0-14-044305-3
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