Maʿbad b. Wahb - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Maʿbad b. Wahb - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Sawa, George Dimitri

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1062660
Doc. NO	:	ALei3057
Main Entry	:	Sawa, George Dimitri
Title & Author	:	Maʿbad b. Wahb - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Sawa, George Dimitri
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(995 words)
Abstract	:	Maʿbad b. Wahb (d. c.126/743) was a singer in the Umayyad court. Raised in Medina, he was a mawlā (client) of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Qaṭar (or Qaṭan) who was, in turn, a mawlā of either al-ʿĀṣ b. Wābiṣa al-Makhzūmī or the caliph Muʿāwiya b. Abī Sufyān (r. 41–60/661–80). He was of mixed Arab and African descent, his father being black, and was tall and cross-eyed. He sang in Damascus at the courts of Yazīd b. ʿAbd al-Malik (r. 101–5/
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei3057.pdf