Abd al-Hamid al-Katib’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Umayyad official, Islamic scholar
A.K.A. Abd al-Hamid ben Yahya ben Sad
Is Writer 
Literary scholar 
Scholar 
From Iraq 
Iran 
Egypt 
Type Academia 
Literature 
Gender male
Death 756, Egypt, Egypt

Abd al-Hamid ibn Yahya al-Katib (Arabic: عبد الحميد بن يحيى الكاتب‎) was the secretary to the last Umayyad Caliph, Marwan II, and a supreme stylist of early Arabic prose.

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Cultivate the Arabic language so that you may speak correctly; develop a handsome script which will add luster to your writings; learn the poetry of the Arabs by heart; familiarize yourself with unusual ideas and expressions; read the history of the Arabs and the Persians, and remember their great deeds

He may have been a descendant of a Persian captive at the battle of Qadesiya who became a mawlā of the Qorashī clan of the Banu Amer b. Loʾayy. Some accounts, however, make the less likely claim that he was of this clan, hence of pure Arab descent.

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