al-Baṣīr, Abū ʿAlī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Weipert, Reinhard
Leiden
Brill
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Abū ʿAlī al-Baṣīr , al-Faḍl b. Jaʿfar al-Anbārī al-Nakhaʿī al-Ḍarīr (fl. first half of the third/ninth century), was an Arab poet and essayist of Persian origin. His nisba s refer to the names of places where his family lived; they moved from al-Anbār to Kufa, where they stayed with the Yemeni tribe al-Nakhaʿ. Abū ʿAlī al-Baṣīr was born and raised there, then left for Sāmarrāʾ when it became the capital of the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in 221/836. He was blind, hence his