Asma'i Biography
Asma'i Biography Who is Al-Asma'i - Al-Asmaʿi Full name Abdul Malik bin Qareeb English Name: ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Qurayb Occupations: poet Date of Birth: January 1, 740 Date of death: January 1, 828 Nationality: Abbasid Place of birth: Iraq Al-Asma’i is one of the greatest narrators of Arab poetry and news, and one of the greatest scholars in language and poetry during the Abbasid Caliphate period. Biography of Al-Asma'i He is Abd al-Malik ibn Qareeb ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Ali ibn Asma' al-Bahili, and he is one of the imams of knowledge in language, poetry, and countries. Al-Asma’i enjoyed wide fame, as the caliphs used to sit with him and love to mingle with him, and the Rashid councils prepared for him to broadcast his voice in all literary circles and forums, so he sought to collect news and poems, and scrutinize his choice of them and his singing so that this fame prompted the narrators to put news and sayings attributed to him. What proves his wide fame, and his superio...