al-ʿAbbās b. Mirdās - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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von Grunebaum, Gustav E.
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Leiden
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Brill
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Al-ʿAbbās b. Mirdās b. Abī ʿĀmir (d. between 18/639 and 35/656), of Sulaym, was an Arabian poet of the mukhaḍramūn , the class of pagan poets who died after the proclamation of Islam. A sayyid in his tribe, he won renown as a warrior as well as a poet. The celebrated marāthī poet al-Khansāʾ is said to have been his mother or stepmother. His poetical achievements surpassed those of his brothers and sister, all of whom displayed literary talent. Impelled, so the story goes, by dream experiences