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NABIGHA DHUBYANT
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NABIGHA DHUBYANT [Ziyad See also:ibn Mu' awiyyal (6th and 7th centuries), Arabian poet, was one of the last poets of pre-Islamic times. His tribe, the Bani Dhubyan, belonged to the See also:district near See also:Mecca, but he himself spent most of his See also:time at the courts of See also:Hira and Ghassan. In Hira he remained under Mondhir (Mundhir) III., and under his successor in 562. After a sojourn at the See also:court of Ghassan, he returned to Hira under Nu`See also:man. He was, however, compelled to flee to Ghassan, owing to some verses he had written on the See also:queen, but returned again about boo. When Nu`man died some five years later he withdrew to his own tribe. The date of his See also:death is uncertain, but he does not seem to have known See also:Islam. His poems consist largely of eulogies and satires, and are concerned with the strife of Hira and Ghassan, and of the Bani Abs and the Bani Dhubyan. He is one of the six eminent pre-Islamic poets whose poems were collected before the See also:middle of the 2nd See also:century of Islam, and have been regarded as the See also:standard of Arabian See also:poetry. Some writers consider him the first of the six. His poems have been edited by W. Ahlwardt in the Diwans of the six See also:ancient Arabic Poets (See also:London, 187o), and separately by H. See also:Derenbourg (See also:Paris, 1869, a reprint from the See also:Journal asiatique for 1868). (G. W. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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