Abu Abdallah al-Husayn ibn Ahmad al-Mughallis

Not to be confused with the early 10th-century theologian and jurist Ibn al-Mughallis.

Abū Abdallāh al-Ḥusayn ibn ʾAḥmad al-Mughallis al-Marāghī (Arabic: أبو عبد الله الحسين بن أحمد المغلس المراغي; the epithet also appears as al-Mughallisī) was a tenth-century CE poet. He flourished around 381 AH/991 CE,[1]: 121  being associated with the court of Bahāʾ al-Dawla.[2] He is noted as one of the only known composers of Arabic riddles in the third century AH.[3]

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  2. ^ Erez Naaman, Literature and the Islamic Court: Cultural life under al-Ṣāḥib Ibn ‘Abbād (London: Routledge, 2016), p. 161 n. 78.
  3. ^ Carl Brockelmann, History of the Arabic Written Tradition Supplement Volume 1, trans. by Joep Lameer, Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, Volume 117/3 (Leiden: Brill, 2017), p. 88; ISBN 978-90-04-33462-5 [trans. from Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur].