Abu Bakr JamÃÂl al-Dën Muḥammad ibn Shams al-Dën Muḥammad ibn Sharaf al-Dën Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn á¹¢ÃÂliḥ ibn Yaḥyàibn ṬÃÂhir ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Khaá¹Âëb ÿAbd al-Raḥëm ibn NubÃÂta (Arabic: ), better known simply as Ibn NubÃÂta (Arabic: ; April 1287 â October 14, 1366) was an Arab poet of the Mamluk period. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote prose. His works are largely not, or not critically, edited to this day, but in 2018 Thomas Bauer was reported to be completing an edition of his al-Qaá¹Âr an-NubÃÂtë ('Ibn NubÃÂtah's Sweet Drops'). Research on Ibn Nubata's work is still in its infancy.
Ibn Nubata was the son of a Hadith scholar and from early youth his interest in poetry emerged in short poems he wrote. Born in Fusá¹ÂÃÂá¹Â, in 1316 he left Cairo for Damascus and lived there until 1360, taking short stays in Hama and Aleppo. However, the Sultan An-Nasir Hasan ordered his return to Cairo.
Ibn Nubata, alongside á¹¢afëddën al-Ḥillë, was one of the two most celebrated Arab poets of the 14th century.
Ibn Nubata died on October 14, 1366 (8 Safar 768 AH), and is buried in the Qalawun cemetery of Al-Mansur Qalawun.
Ibn NubÃÂta was a seminal writer in the development of the epigrammatic poetic form known as maqá¹Âà «Ã¿: al-Qaá¹Âr an-NubÃÂtë is thought to be the first sole-authored collection of poems in this genre.