Ibn al-Qaysarānī, Abū ʿAbdallāh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Bauer, Thomas
Leiden
Brill
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The Syrian poet Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Naṣr b. Ṣaghīr al-ʿAkkāwī al-Ḥalabī, known as al-Qaysarānī or Ibn al-Qaysarānī (478-548/1085-1153), is famous for his panegyrics, especially those he composed for ʿImād al-Dīn Zangī (r. 521-41/1127-46) and his son Nūr al-Dīn b. Zangī (r. 541-65/1146-74), and his love poems about people from the region of Anṭākiya. Ibn al-Qaysarānī was born in ʿAkkā (Acre, Palestine) in 478/1085 and grew up in nearby Qaysāriyya (Caesarea Maritima) until