Abu Tammam
Muslim Arab poet of Abbasid era
- Lived
- 807–846
Updated September 2026
About Abu Tammam
Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭā’ī, better known by his sobriquet Abū Tammām, was an Arab Muslim poet. He is well known for compiling the Hamasah, which is considered to be one of the greatest anthologies of Arabic literature ever assembled. The Hamasah contained 10 books of poems, with 884 poems in total.
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