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ʻAbd al-Hamid al-Katib (circa 689-750) -- Abu al-ʻAtahiyah (748-825?) -- Abu Nuwas (circa 757-814 or 815) -- Abu Tammam (circa 805-845) -- Alf laylah wa laylah (ninth century onward) -- ʻAli ibn Abi Talib (circa 600-661) -- ʻAntarah (ʻAntar ibn Shaddad al-ʻAbsi) (?-early seventh century?) -- ʻArib al-Maʼmuniyah (797-890) -- Bashshar ibn Burd (circa 714-circa 784) -- al-Buhturi (821-897) -- Dhu al-Rummah (Abu al-Harith Ghaylan ibn ʻUqbah) (circa 696-circa 735) -- al-Hallaj (857-922) -- al-Hasan al-Basri (642-728) -- Hunayn ibn Ishaq (809-873 or 877) -- Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur (820-893) -- Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ (circa 723-759) -- Ibn al-Muʻtazz (861-908) -- Ibn Qutaybah (828-889) -- Ibn al-Rumi (836-896) -- Ibn Saʻd (784-845) -- Ibrahim al-Mawsili (742 or 743-803 or 804) -- Imruʼ al-Qays (circa 526-circa 565) -- Jaʻfar al-Sadiq (circa 702-765) -- al-Jahiz (circa 776-868 or 869) -- Jarir (after 650-circa 730) -- al-Khalil ibn Ahmad (circa 718-before 791) -- al-Khansaʼ (flourished late sixth-mid seventh centuries) -- al-Mubarrad (826-898 or 899) -- Muhammad the Prophet (circa 570-632) -- Qays ibn al-Mulawwah (circa 680-710) -- Rabiʻah al-ʻAdawiyyah (circa 720-801) -- al-Razi (865?-925 or 935) -- Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafiʻi (767-820) -- al-Shanfara (flourished sixth century) -- Sibawayhi (circa 750-circa 795) -- al-Tabari (839-923) -- ʻUmar ibn Abi Rabiʻah (644-712 or 721).
edited by Michael Cooperson and Shawkat M. Toorawa.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-356) and index.
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 311