Abu al-Fadl Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf ( Arabic: عباس بن الأحنف) (750 in Basra-809), was an Arab Abbasid poet from the tribe of Banu Hanifa. His work consists solely of love poems ( ghazal). It is "primarily concerned with the hopelessness of love, and the personae in his compositions seems resigned to a relationship of deprivation". [1] The vocabulary he chose was simple and his style is fluent and easy.
He grew up in Baghdad, where he became a friend of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid. [2] who employed him for the purpose of amusing him in time of leisure. His work was an acknowledged influence on Abdullah ibn al-Mu'tazz and Abu al-Atahiya. [3]
Abu al-Fadl Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf ( Arabic: عباس بن الأحنف) (750 in Basra-809), was an Arab Abbasid poet from the tribe of Banu Hanifa. His work consists solely of love poems ( ghazal). It is "primarily concerned with the hopelessness of love, and the personae in his compositions seems resigned to a relationship of deprivation". [1] The vocabulary he chose was simple and his style is fluent and easy.
He grew up in Baghdad, where he became a friend of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid. [2] who employed him for the purpose of amusing him in time of leisure. His work was an acknowledged influence on Abdullah ibn al-Mu'tazz and Abu al-Atahiya. [3]