Ibn al-Rūmī ابن الرومى | |
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أبو الحسن علي بن العباس بن جريج | |
Born | 21 June 836 [1] |
Died | 13 July 896 (aged 60) [2] |
Era | Islamic Golden Age (Abbasid era) |
Region | Iraq, Arab world, Muslim world |
Main interests | Arabic poetry |
Abū al-Ḥasan Alī ibn al-Abbās ibn Jūrayj (Arabic: أبو الحسن علي بن العباس بن جريج), also known as Ibn al-Rūmī[3] (born Baghdad in 836; died 896), was the grandson of George the Greek (Jūraij or Jūrjis i.e. Georgius) and a popular Arab[4] poet of Baghdād in the Abbāsid-era.[5]
By the age of twenty he earned a living from his poetry. His many political patrons included the governor Ubaydallah ibn Abdallah ibn Tahir, Abbasid caliph Al-Mu'tamid's minister the Persian Isma'il ibn Bulbul, and the politically influential Nestorian family Banū Wahb. In the tenth century his Dīwān (collected poetry), which had been transmitted orally by al-Mutanabbī, was arranged and edited by Abū Bakr ibn Yaḥyā al-Ṣūlī, and included in the section of his book Kitāb Al-Awrāq (كتاب الاوراق) on muḥadathūn (modern poets).[6][7][8][9][10]