Ibn al-Muqaffa'

Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa
Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa
	Ibn al-Muqaffa; by Khalil Gibran.
Born	Jur, Fars, Umayyad Caliphate (modern-day Firuzabad, Iran)
Died	AH 139 (756/757) or AH 142 (759/760); Basra, Abbasid Caliphate
Occupation(s)	Author and translator

Abū Muhammad ʿAbd Allāh Rūzbih ibn Dādūya (Arabic: ابو محمد عبدالله روزبه ابن دادويه), born Rōzbih pūr-i Dādōē (Persian: روزبه پور دادویه), more commonly known as Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (Arabic: ابن المقفع; died c. 756/759), was a Persian translator, philosopher, author and thinker who wrote in the Arabic language. He bore the name Rōzbeh/Rūzbeh before his comparatively late conversion to Islam from Manichaeism.^[1]^[2]^[3]

^ Daryaee 2012, pp. 235–236. "An early example is found in the writings of Ibn al-Muqaffa (d. ca. 757), a Persian convert employed as a translator and scholar at the Abbasid court."
^ Brown 2009, p. 129. "Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, the son of an Iraqi tax collector who had been tortured for mishandling tax revenues (hence the nickname “al-Muqaffaʿ,” the cripple), was happy to oblige."
^ Lewis, Lambton & Holt 1986, p. 664. "Bashshar, (d. 167/783) a Persian, heralded the advent of 'Abbasid poetry, just as it was another Persian, Ibn al-Muqaffa', who opened the history of 'Abbasid prose."

[1] Daryaee 2012, pp. 235–236. "An early example is found in the writings of Ibn al-Muqaffa (d. ca. 757), a Persian convert employed as a translator and scholar at the Abbasid court."

[books.google.fr-2] Brown 2009, p. 129. "Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, the son of an Iraqi tax collector who had been tortured for mishandling tax revenues (hence the nickname “al-Muqaffaʿ,” the cripple), was happy to oblige."

[3] Lewis, Lambton & Holt 1986, p. 664. "Bashshar, (d. 167/783) a Persian, heralded the advent of 'Abbasid poetry, just as it was another Persian, Ibn al-Muqaffa', who opened the history of 'Abbasid prose."

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