Abu Tammam

Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭā’ī
Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭā’ī
Native name	حبيب بن أوس الطائي
Born	ca. 796/807 AD; Jasim
Died	845 AD; Mosul
Pen name	Abū Tammām
Language	Arabic
Period	Islamic Golden Age ; (Abbasid era)

Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭā’ī (حبيب بن أوس الطائي; ca. 796/807 - 845), better known by his sobriquet Abū Tammām (أبو تمام), was an Arab poet and Muslim convert born to Christian parents.^[1] He is best known in literature by his 9th-century compilation of early poems known as the Hamasah, considered one of the greatest anthologies of Arabic literature ever assembled.^[2] Hamasah contained 10 books of poems, with 884 poems in total.^[3]

^ Ibn Ab̄i Tahir Ṭāyfūr and Arabic writerly culture a ninth-century bookman in Baghdad, Routledge Curzon Studies in Arabic and Middle-Eastern Literatures: A Ninth-century Bookman in Baghdad, By Shawkat M. Toorawa, pg. 94
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^ "Hamasah of Abu Tammam". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk.

[1] Ibn Ab̄i Tahir Ṭāyfūr and Arabic writerly culture a ninth-century bookman in Baghdad, Routledge Curzon Studies in Arabic and Middle-Eastern Literatures: A Ninth-century Bookman in Baghdad, By Shawkat M. Toorawa, pg. 94

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[3] "Hamasah of Abu Tammam". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk.

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