Al-Tutili
Moorish writer
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Abu ’l-ʿAbbās (or Abū Dj̲aʿfar) Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hurayra al-ʿUtbī (or al-Kaysī) (Arabic: أحمد بن عبد الله بن هريرة القيسي الأعمى التطيلي) (died 1126), nicknamed al-Aʿmā al-Tuṭīlī or the Blind Poet of Tudela, was an Andalusian Arab poet who composed in Arabic.[1] Although born in Tudela, he was raised in Seville, where he gained talent in poetry. He later lived in Murcia. He died young.
Al-Tutili | |
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أحمد بن عبد الله بن هريرة القيسي الأعمى التطيلي | |
| Born | Tudela, Al-Andalus (modern-day Spain) |
| Died | 1126 |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Writing career | |
| Language | Arabic |