Adi ibn Zayd | |
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Born | c. 550 Al-Hirah |
Died | c. 600 |
Occupation | Poet |
Spouse | Hind |
Adi ibn Zayd al-Ibadi al-Tamimi (Arabic: عَدِيُّ بْنُ زَيْدٍ العِبَادِيُّ التَمِيمِيُ, romanized: ʿAdī ibn Zayd al-ʿIbādī al-Tamīmī; c. 550-600)[1] was a 6th-century Arab Christian poet from an Ibadi family of al-Hirah.[2]
The next notable figure at al-Hira was Nu'man III who was phylarch there from about 580 AD His accession to power was engineered by the Christian poet Adi ibn Zayd whose family had long been important at Hira