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JARIR IBN

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 276 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JARIR

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IBN  'ATTYYA UL-KHATFI (d . 728), Arabian poet, was born in the reign of the
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caliph `
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Ali, was a member of the tribe Kulaib, a
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part of the Tamim, and lived in
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Irak . Of his early
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life little is known, but he succeeded in winning the favour of Hajjaj, the governor of Irak (see
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CALIPHATE) . Already famous for his verse, he became more widely known by his
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feud with Farazdaq and Akhtal . Later he went to
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Damascus and visited the court of Abdalmalik ('Abd ul-Malik) and that of his successor, Walid . From neither of these did he receive a warm welcome . He was, however, more successful with Omar II., and was the only poet received by the pious caliph . His verse, which, like that of his contemporaries, is largely satire and eulogy, was published in 2 vols . (Cairo, 1896) . (G . W .

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