Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mutanabbī al-Kindī, commonly known as al-Mutanabbi, was an Abbasid-era Arab poet at the court of the Hamdanid emir Sayf al-Dawla in Aleppo, for whom he composed 30
Al-Mutanabbi by Iraqi polymath Muntadher Saleh
An Arabic manuscript with the Diwan of Mutanabbi (Sharh Diwan Al-Mutanabbi), by the scribal scholar Abu-I-Tayyib Ahmad Ibn al-Hussain, c. 1300 AD, origin unknown
Diwan of the poetry of Al-Mutanabbi from early 14th century Iran, Khalili Collection of Islamic Art
A statue of the poet in Mutanabbi Street
Al-Mutanabbi Street is located in Baghdad, Iraq, near the old quarter of Baghdad; at al-Rashid Street. The street is the historic center of Baghdad bookselling, a street filled with bookstores and out
The street in 1920.
The buildings on the end of al-Mutanabbi Street
Picture from 2017 featuring an evening scene in the street
The exterior of the Shabandar Café