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Abu Firas al-Hamdani
Abu Firas al-Hamdani was an Arab poet and warrior, a cousin of Sayf al-Dawla, the Hamdanid emir of Aleppo. He served as governor of Manbij and fought in the wars against Byzantium, during which he was captured and spent several years as a prisoner in Constantinople. His poems written in captivity, the Rumiyyat, are among the most admired of classical Arabic poetry. He was killed in 968 in a dynastic dispute.
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