Person

Barbīr, Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAbd-al-Laṭīf al-

1748–1811

Aḥmad bin ʿAbd al-Laṭīf bin Muḥammad al-Barbīr (1747-1811) was a late eighteenth century adīb, poet, critic, and muftī of Beirut. Born and educated in Egypt of Levantine parents, he travelled to Beirut as a young man and subsequently settled in Damascus, where he composed a lengthy maqāma