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Abadda b. Maḥmūd al-ʿAlawī
(94 words)

fl. 20thC

Biography

Alt. name: Abadda b. Sīdī Aḥmad b. Maḥmūd b. Muḥammadī b. Aḥmad b. Khayār al-ʿAlawī (Ould al-Bara).

Muḥammaddū, nicknamed “Abadda,” b. Maḥmūd b. Aḥmad b. Khayār was from the Ahl Khayār b. al-Qāḍī fraction of the Idaw ʿAlī and was a famous poet.

Works

1. Dīwān shiʿr. Subject: Literature: collection; Form: Diwan.

MSS: ed. Abbāh b. Aḥmadu b. Abbāh.

Cited in Shinqīṭi/Wasīṭ 40–47; Ibn Ḥāmidun/Mawsūʿa: Idaw ʿAlī 67; Ould al-Bara 173; ML…

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“Abadda b. Maḥmūd al-ʿAlawī”, in: Arabic Literature of Africa Online, General Editor John O. Hunwick, R.S. O’Fahey. Consulted online on 30 September 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2405-4453_alao_COM_ALA_50004_1_1>



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