al-Ḥakam b. Qanbar - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Weipert, Reinhard
Leiden
Brill
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Al-Ḥakam b. Muḥammad b. Qanbar al-Māzinī (second/eighth century) was a poet from Basra, whose surviving verses are largely invective, along with some love poetry. Ibn Qanbar (not Qunbur as in al-Aghānī , 14, and GAS ), as he was usually called, is portrayed in one main source, Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī, al-Aghānī , 14:161-8, on which the small entry in al-Ṣafadī, al-Wāfī , 13:125-6 depends. With evidence from this narrow base of information one may conclude that Ibn Qanbar lived mainly in