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Abd al-Rahman al-Fazazi

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Abu Zayd Abd al-Rahman ibn Yakhlaftan ibn Ahmad al-Fazazi (Arabic: عبد الرحمن الفزازي) (died in Fez in 627/1230) was a poet and mystic.[1] He is especially well known for his Al-Wasail al-Mutaqabbala, a long poem in praise of the Islamic prophet Mohammed.[2]

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  1. ^ References in: Werner Diem, Marco Schöller, The Living and the Dead in Islam: Epitaphs in context, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2004, p.64
  2. ^ see GAL S I, 482