Ibn Al-Mutazz, Abdallah Abu Al-Abbas

Ibn Al-Mutazz, Abdallah Abu Al-Abbas 

Born Nov. 1, 861, in Baghdad; died there Dec. 19,908. Arab poet and philologist. Son of the Abbasid caliph al-Mutazz.

Ibn al-Mutazz followed the so-called new trend in court poetry and wrote a versified chronicle of Caliph al-Mutadid (892–902). He compiled several anthologies belonging to the adab literature, a large anthology of “new” poets, a collection of aphorisms, an anthology of Bacchanalian poetry, and a book about literary plagiarisms. His work on poetics (Book About the New) laid the foundation for an entire science in the Near East.

WORKS

Kitab al-badi (text, translation, and research). In I. lu. Krachkovskii, Izbr. soch., vol. 6. Moscow-Leningrad, 1960.
Divan, I–IV. Istanbul, 1940–50.

REFERENCES

al-Ahl, Abd al-Aziz. Abdallah ibn al-Mutazz. Beirut, 1951.
Loth, O. Über Leben und Werke des Abdallah ibn ul Mu’tazz. Leipzig, 1882.

A. A. DOLININA