Ibn Abī l-Ḥadīd - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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ʿIzz al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Hibatallāh b. Muḥammad (b. Muḥammad) b. al-Ḥusayn b. Abī l-Ḥadīd al-Madāʾinī al-Baghdādī (d. 655 or 656/1257 or 1258), called Ibn Abī l-Ḥadīd , was a Sunnī-Muʿtazilī theologian with Shīʿī leanings and a poet, historian, and literary theorist, best known for his twenty-volume commentary on Nahj al-balāgha ("Path of eloquence"), a compilation of ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib's (d. 40/661) words. An official in the ʿAbbāsid state, he held various administrative posts in