al-Jazzār, Abū l-Ḥusayn - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Bauer, Thomas
Leiden
Brill
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Jamāl al-Dīn Abū l-Ḥusayn Yaḥyā b. ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm b. Yaḥyā, known as al-Jazzār , "the butcher" (601-79/1204-81), was an Egyptian tradesman and a highly acclaimed poet who, along with his panegyrics and love poetry, was famous for his self-deprecating poems on daily life. He was born in al-Fusṭāṭ in Ṣafar 601/October 1204 (al-Birzālī) into a family of butchers, a trade that he would later learn and practise himself. From a young age, he cultivated his poetic talent-mainly as an