Talib, Adam

Jamāl al-Dīn Abū l-Ḥusayn (or Abū l-Ḥasan) Yaḥyā b. ʿĪsā Ibn Maṭrūḥ made his mark as a poet and statesman during the tense final decades of Ayyūbid rule, although his poetic and political achievements fell short of those of his friend Bahāʾ al-Dīn Zuhayr (581–656/1186–1258). Bor…

The dūbayt in Arabic is a poetic quatrain, corresponding to its more famous Persian counterpart, the rubāʿī . In the Arabic tradition, the poem is counted as a two-liner (with a Persian name) whereas in Persian it is a quatrain (with an Arabic name). The dūbayt (or dūbaytī ) for…