Ḥayṣa Bayṣa

by Orfali, Bilal

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Ḥayṣa Bayṣa (b. c.492/1098–9, d. 6 Shaʿbān 574/11 January 1179) is the nickname of the Arab poet Shihāb al-Dīn Abū l-Fawāris Saʿd b. Muḥammad b. Saʿd al-Sayfī al-Tamīmī. His nickname is derived from the expression fī ḥayṣa bayṣa “in straits and distress” which he once used to describe the people of his time (Ibn al-ʿAdīm, 9:4262, 4269). He was trained at the famed al-Niẓāmiyya madrasa in Baghdad in adab (belles-lettres) by ʿAlī b. Zayd al-Faṣīḥī (d. 516/

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Ḥayṣa Bayṣa (b. c.492/1098–9, d. 6 Shaʿbān 574/11 January 1179) is the nickname of the Arab poet Shihāb al-Dīn Abū l-Fawāris Saʿd b. Muḥammad b. Saʿd al-Sayfī al-Tamīmī. His nickname is derived from the expression fī ḥayṣa bayṣa “in straits and distress” which he once used to describe the people of his time (Ibn al-ʿAdīm, 9:4262, 4269). He was trained at the famed al-Niẓāmiyya madrasa in Baghdad in adab (belles-lettres) by ʿAlī b. Zayd al-Faṣīḥī (d. 516/

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