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HASSAN IBN THABIT (died 674)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 51 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HASSAN See also:IBN THABIT (died 674)  , Arabian poet, was See also:born in Yathrib (See also:Medina), a member of the tribe Khazraj . In his youth he travelled to See also:Hira and See also:Damascus, then settled in Medina, where, after the See also:advent of See also:Mahomet, he accepted See also:Islam and wrote poems in See also:defence of the See also:prophet . His See also:poetry is regarded as See also:commonplace and lacking in distinction .

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