Abū Ḥafṣ al-Shiṭranjī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Bauer, Thomas
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ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Abū Ḥafṣ al-Shiṭranjī (d. during the caliphate of al-Muʿtaṣim, 218-27/833-42), was a poet of ghazal at the ʿAbbāsid court. Abū Ḥafṣ, whose father had been a mawlā of al-Manṣūr, grew up in the household of the caliph al-Mahdī. After al-Mahdī's death, Abū Ḥafṣ joined the entourage of his daughter, the singer and poet ʿUlayya bt. al-Mahdī (160-210/777-825), and composed poetry at her request. Only a few of his poems have been preserved,