Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf

Abu al-Fadl Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf (Arabic: عباس بن الأحنف‎) (750 in Basra-809), was an Arab Abbasid poet from the tribe of Banu Hanifa. His work consists solely of love poems (ghazal). It is "primarily concerned with the hopelessness of love, and the personae in his compositions seems resigned to a relationship of deprivation". The vocabulary he chose was simple and his style is fluent and easy.

Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf

Abu al-Fadl Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf (Arabic: عباس بن الأحنف‎) (750 in Basra-809), was an Arab Abbasid poet from the tribe of Banu Hanifa. His work consists solely of love poems (ghazal). It is "primarily concerned with the hopelessness of love, and the personae in his compositions seems resigned to a relationship of deprivation". The vocabulary he chose was simple and his style is fluent and easy.