Ibn Nubata (preacher)
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Abū Yaḥyā ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ḥudhakī al-Fāriqī, better known as Ibn Nubāta (d. 984/5), was an Islamic preacher (khaṭīb) celebrated for his sermons, active at the court of the Hamdanid emir of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla.
Ibn Nubata was born in Mayyafariqin to a family belonging to the Hadhabani tribe, but the date is not known. His medieval biographers assigned him a birth date of 946, but this is considered erroneous by modern historians.[1] He was active at the court of the Hamdanid emir of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla, celebrated both as a warrior and patron of art and culture. The Aleppan court at the time attracted some of the most important intellectuals of the Arab world, and has been compared by modern historians with Renaissance Italy.[2] Ibn Nubata died in his home city in 984/5.[1]
