al-ʿAbbās b. al-Aḥnaf - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Enderwitz, Susanne
Leiden
Brill
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Abū l-Faḍl al-ʿAbbās b. al-Aḥnaf (c. 133-92/750-807) was an author of love poetry in early ʿAbbāsid Iraq. His family belonged to the Arab clan of Ḥanīfa, from the district of Basra, but had emigrated toKhurāsān. His father was buried in Basra in 150/767, when al-ʿAbbās was about seventeen-as we can infer from the report that he died before his sixtieth birthday-perhaps indicating that the family had returned to Iraq, where they owned several houses. We do not know much about