Ibn Nubata


Ibn Nubāta ; – full name, Ǧamāl ad-Dīn / Šihāb ad-Dīn Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Fāriqī al-Ḥuḏāqī al-Miṣrī – was an Arab poet of the Mamluk era. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote prose. His works are largely not, or not critically, edited to this day. The research on Ibn Nubata's work is still in its infancy.
Ibn Nubata was the son of a Ḥadīth scholar and from early youth his interest in poetry emerged in short poems he wrote. In 1316 he left Cairo for Damascus and lived there until 1360, taking short stays in Hama and Aleppo. However the Sultan An-Nasir al-Hasan ordered his return to Cairo. Ibn Nubata died on October 13, 1366, and is buried in the Qalawun cemetery of Al-Mansur Qalawun.

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