Abū Yaʿqūb al-Khuraymī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Weipert, Reinhard
Leiden
Brill
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Abū Yaʿqūb al-Khuraymī , Isḥāq b. Ḥassān al-Qūhī (second half of the second/eighth century to probably the first decade of the third/ninth century), was a highly regarded Arab poet at the court of Hārūn al-Rashīd (r. 170-93/786-809). According to al-Ṣafadī (8:409) he died in 214/829, but this date is not confirmed by early sources. Al-Khuraymī, a descendant of a noble Persian (or Turkish?) Sogdian family, was a mawlā of Khuraym b. ʿĀmir al-Murrī and his family, from whom