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AKHTAL [GxrYATH IBN IIA1uTa] (c. 64o-71o)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 456 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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AKHTAL [GxrYATH IBN IIA1uTa] (c. 64o-71o) , one of the most famous Arabian poets of the Omayyad period, belonged to the tribe of Taghlib in
Mesopotamia
 , and was, like his fellow-tribesmen, a Christian, enjoying the freedom of his religion, while not taking its duties very seriously. Of his private
life
  few details are known, save that he was married and divorced, and that he spent
part
  of his time in Damascus,
part
  with histribe in
Mesopotamia
 . In the wars of the Taghlibites with the Q,aisites he took part in the field, and by his satires. In the literary strife between his contemporaries Jarir and Ferazdaq he was induced to support the latter poet.
Akhtal
 , Jarir and Ferazdaq form a trio celebrated among the
Arabs
 , but as to relative superiority there is dispute. In the 'Abbasid period there is no doubt that
Akhtal
 's Christianity told against his reputation, but Abu 'Ubaida placed him highest of the three on the ground that amongst his poems there were ten flawless qasidas (elegies), and ten more nearly so, and that this could not be said of the other two. The
chief
  material of his poems consists of
panegyric
  of patrons and
satire
  of rivals, the latter being, however, more restrained than was usual at the time.
The Poetry of al-Akhtal has been published at the Jesuit
press
  in Beirut,1891. A full account of the poet and his times is given in H. Lammens' Le chantre des Omiades (Paris, 1895) (a reprint from the
Journal
  Asiatique for 1894). (G. W. T.)


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