Ibn Nubata

Ibn Nubata was an Egyptian poet of the Mamluk period, active in Cairo and Syria from the late thirteenth to the fourteenth century. He was admired not only for his poetry but also for his ornate prose, calligraphy, and learning in religion and history. His surviving literary legacy includes poetry collections and the prose work “Saǧʿ al-muṭawwaq,” written in 1319.