Al-Tutili

Abu ’l-ʿAbbās (or Abū Dj̲aʿfar) Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hurayra al-ʿUtbī (or al-Kaysī) (Arabic: أحمد بن عبد الله بن هريرة القيسي الأعمى التطيلي) (died 1126), nicknamed al-Aʿmā al-Tuṭīlī or the Blind Poet of Tudela, was an Andalusian Arab poet who composed in Arabic.[1] Although born in Tudela, he was raised in Seville, where he gained talent in poetry. He later lived in Murcia. He died young.

  1. ^ Stern, S. M. (1960–2005). "al-Aʿmā al-Tuṭīlī". The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition (12 vols.). Leiden: E. J. Brill. al-Aʿmā means "the blind" and al-Tuṭīlī "the Tudelan".

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