Al-Mutawakli

Letter of Yaqub Laith Saffari in boasting to his ancestors and fighting with the whips to the Caliph

A letter that Yaqub Leith Safari sent to the Caliph's court bragging about his Iranian ancestors and fighting with the Tazians.!   Ebrahim bin Mamshad Esfahani had the surname Mutawakuli or al-Mutawakuli, an Iranian Arabic poet of the Abbasid period. He was a follower of Shuaubiyyah. Ibrahim was born in G. Isfahan. In the beginning, he approached the caliphate…