Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur

Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr (b. 204 AH/819 CE, d. 280 AH/August 893 CE) was a

. He played an important role in the Arabic literary revolution. Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur was the first writer who devoted a book to writers. He was buried in Bab al-Sham cemetery, where people of note were buried.

Works

• Kitab al-Manthur wa al-Manzum (Book of prose and poetry), in three volumes. This book is the first attested multi-author anthology of prose writing and poetry epistles.
• Kitab Baghdad (Book of Baghdad), 6 volumes, but only one survived.
• Balaghat al-Nisa'
  (the eloquence of women).
• Kitab Sariqat Abi Tammama (book of borrowings/plagiarism of Abi Tammama)
• Al-Mushtaq. This, along with the romantic literature of Muhammad bin Dawud al-Zahiri and Ibn Qutaybah, were considered by lexicographer Ibn Duraid to be the three most important works for those who wished to speak and write eloquently.^[2][3]

In addition, there are scattered quotations of his works and hundreds of verses of his poetry which have survived.

See also

• Arabic literature
• List of Iranian scientists and scholars

References

• Shawkat M. Toorawa, Ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr and Arabic writerly culture: a ninth-century bookman in Baghdad,
  ISBN 0-415-29762-1 [1]
• Encyclopedia Islam, Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur (in Persian)

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