Buhturi , Arabic, أبو الوليد بن عبيدالله البحتري التنوخي (al-Walīd ibn `Ubayd Allāh al-Buhturī) (820–897) was an Arab

Arab

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 poet born at Hierapolis Bambyce in Syria

Syria

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, between Aleppo

Aleppo

Aleppo is the largest city in Syria and the capital of Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Syrian governorate. With an official population of 2,301,570 , expanding to over 2.5 million in the metropolitan area, it is also one of the largest cities in the Levant...

 and the Euphrates

Euphrates

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. Like Abu Tammam

Abu Tammam

Abu Tammam was an Abbasid era Arab poet and Muslim convert born to Christian parents.- Biography :...

, he was of the tribe of Tai.
While still young, he went to visit Abu Tammam at Homs

Homs

Homs , previously known as Emesa , is a city in western Syria and the capital of the Homs Governorate. It is above sea level and is located north of Damascus...

, and by him was commended to the authorities at Ma'arrat an-Nu'man, who gave him a pension of 4000 dirhems yearly. Later he went to Baghdad

Baghdad

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, where he wrote verses in praise of the caliph

Caliph

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 al-Mutawakkil

Al-Mutawakkil

Al-Mutawakkil ʻAlā Allāh Jaʻfar ibn al-Muʻtasim was an Abbasid caliph who reigned in Samarra from 847 until 861...

 and of the members of his court. Although long resident in Baghdad, he devoted much of his poetry to the praise of Aleppo, and much of his love-poetry is dedicated to Aiwa, a maiden of that city. He died at Manbij in 897.

His poetry was collected and edited twice in the 10th century, arranged in one edition alphabetically (i.e. according to the last consonant in each line); in the other according to subject. It was published in Constantinople (modern Istanbul

Istanbul

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) in 1883. Like Abu Tammam, he made a collection of early poems also known as the Hamasah

Hamasah

Ḥamāsah is a ten-book anthology of Arabic poetry, compiled in the 9th Century by Abu Tammam. Poems are grouped by subject matter....

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