Adi ibn Zayd al-Ibadi al-Tamimi ( ar, عَدِيُّ بْنُ زَيْدٍ العِبَادِيُّ التَمِيمِيُ , ʿAdī ibn Zayd al-ʿIbādī al-Tamīmī) was a 6th-century Arab Christian poet from an

Ibad The ʿIbād or ʿEbād () were a Christian Arab group within the city of al-Ḥīra (Ḥirtā) during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, when the city was part of the Sasanian Empire and later the Caliphate. Of diverse tribal backgrounds, ...

i family of al-Hirah. He was married to the granddaughter of the

Lakhmid The Lakhmids ( ar, اللخميون, translit=al-Laḫmiyyūn) referred to in Arabic as al-Manādhirah (, romanized as: ) or Banu Lakhm (, romanized as: ) was an Arab kingdom in Southern Iraq and Eastern Arabia, with al-Hirah as their capital ...

ruler

al-Nu'man III ibn al-Mundhir Al-Nuʿmān III ibn al-Mundhir ( ar, النعمان بن المنذر), also transcribed Naʿaman, Nuʿaman and Noman and often known by the Kunya (Arabic), patronymic Abu Qabus (), was the last Lakhmid king of al-Hirah (582 – ) and a Nestoria ...

(), and is said to have helped al-Nu'man accede to power as ruler of al-Hirah. He also served as the secretary (''

dabir ''Dibīr'' (Middle Persian for "secretary/scribe") was the title of one of the four classes in the society of Sasanian Iran, which played a major role in Sasanian politics. The term fell out of favour under the Umayyad Caliphate, when Persian was r ...

'') for Arab affairs under the

Sasanian The Sasanian () or Sassanid Empire, officially known as the Empire of Iranians (, ) and also referred to by historians as the Neo-Persian Empire, was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th-8th centuries AD. Named ...

king

Hormizd IV Hormizd IV (also spelled Hormozd IV or Ohrmazd IV; pal, 𐭠𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭬𐭦𐭣) was the Sasanian King of Kings of Iran from 579 to 590. He was the son and successor of Khosrow I () and his mother was a Khazar princess. During his reign, Ho ...

(). He is featured in ''Adî ibn Zayd and the Princess Hind'', a tale in the Arabian Nights.

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Francesco Gabrieli Francesco Gabrieli (27 April 1904, in Rome – 13 December 1996, in Rome) was counted among the most distinguished Italian Arabists together with Giorgio Levi Della Vida and Alessandro Bausani, of whom he was respectively a student and colleag ...

, "ʿAdī ibn Zaid, il poeta di al-Ḥīrah", in: ''Rendiconti dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei'', classe di scienze morali, serie VIII, vol. I (1946), pp. 81-96 (in Italian). * *

External links

His poets (Arabic) in poetsgate.com

Adi bin Zayd and the princess Hind
550 births 600 deaths 6th-century Arabic poets Arab Christians in Mesopotamia Arabs from the Sasanian Empire One Thousand and One Nights characters Officials of the Sasanian Empire Lakhmids Christians in the Sasanian Empire {{MEast-poet-stub