Bā Makhrama, ʿUmar - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Knysh, Alexander D.
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ʿUmar b. ʿAbdallāh Bā Makhrama (884-952/1479-1546), a popular Ṣūfī poet of South Arabia, was born in Ḥaḍramawt into a family of the Ḥaḍramī mashāʾikh (local families acknowledged as religious authorities) of the Saybān tribe, who traced their lineage back to the Ḥimyarite nobility of the pre-Islamic South Arabian kingdoms. On coming of age, he travelled to Aden to join his father, Abū l-Ṭayyib ʿAbdallāh, a renowned Shāfiʿī scholar, who had served briefly as the city's chief qāḍī under the Ṭāhirid sultan ʿAlī b. Ṭāhir (