Umara ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Yamani
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Umāra ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Yamanī (Arabic: عمارة بن ابي الحسن اليمني)[n 1] was a historian, jurist and poet of Yemen of great repute who was closely associated with the late Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt. He was executed by order of Saladin at Cairo on April 6, 1174 for his part in a conspiracy to restore Fatimid rule. His Tarikh al-Yaman is the earliest, and in respects the most important, history of Yemen from the Islamic era.[4]
Quick Facts Umāra ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Yamanī, or Najm al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥakamī, Born ...
Umāra ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Yamanī, or Najm al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥakamī | |
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Born | 1121 AD (515 AH) al-Zara'ib, Yemen |
Died | Saturday, April 6, 1174 AD (2 Ramadan 569 AH) |
Occupation(s) | faqih (juriconsult), historian, poet |
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Era | Abbasid period |
School or tradition | Shafi'i, Sunni |
Main interests | Traditional Arabic Literature |
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Influenced | Literary Movement Literature in the Second Abbasid Period (Fragmentation of the Caliphate) |
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