Tarafa | |
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 Tarafa (1967 sketch) | |
| Born | Tarafa ibn al-‘Abd ibn Sufyān ibn Sa‘d Abū ‘Amr al-Bakrī al-Wā’ilī c. 543 Bahrain, Arabia |
| Died | c. 569 Bahrain, Arabia |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | Arabic |
| Nationality | Arabian |
| Period | Pre-Islamic |
| Genre | Panegyrics, Satire |
| Notable works | Mu'allaqat |
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Tarafa (Arabic: طرفة بن العبد بن سفيان بن سعد أبو عمرو البكري الوائلي / ALA-LC: Ṭarafah ibn al-‘Abd ibn Sufyān ibn Sa‘d Abū ‘Amr al-Bakrī al-Wā’ilī; 543–569), was a 6th century Arabian poet of the tribe of the Bakr. He is one of the seven poets of the most celebrated anthology of ancient Arabic poetry, known as the Muʿallaqāt, however just one of his poems is included. His fellow poets preserved in this work are Al-Nabigha, Antarah ibn Shaddad, Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma, 'Alqama ibn 'Abada and Imru' al-Qais.