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'''Abū al-Ḥasan Alī ibn al-Abbās ibn Jūrayj''' ({{lang-ar| أبو الحسن علي بن العباس بن جريج}}), also known as '''Ibn al-Rūmī'''{{sfn|Khallikān|1843|loc=II|p=297}} (born [[Baghdad]] in 836; died 896), was the grandson of George the Greek (Jūraij or Jūrjis i.e. Georgius) and a popular poet of Baghdād in the Abbāsid-era.{{sfn|Nadīm (al-)|1970|p=1085}} By the age of twenty he earned a living from his poetry. His many political patrons included the [[Tahirid]] ruler [[Ubaydallah ibn Abdallah ibn Tahir]], [[Abbasid Caliphate|Abbasid caliph]] [[Al-Mu'tamid]]'s minister the Persian [[Isma'il ibn Bulbul]], and the politically influential [[Nestorian Christian|Nestorian]] family [[Sulayman ibn Wahb|Banū Wahb]]. He was a [[Shiite]] with [[Mutazilite]] leanings. He died of illness at the age of 59. His early biographer [[Ibn Khallikan|Ibn Khallikān]] relates an account that he was given poisoned biscuits in the presence of the caliph [[Al-Mu'tadid]] on the orders of his [[vizier]], [[Al-Qasim ibn Ubayd Allah]], whom Ibn al-Rumī had satirised viciously.{{sfn|Khallikān (Ibn)|1843|loc=II|p=299}} In another account his death is attributed to suicide. In the tenth- century his [[Diwan (poetry)|Dīwān]] (collected poetry), thatwhich had been transmitted orally by [[Al-Mutanabbi|al-Mutanabbī]], was arranged and edited by [[Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli|Abū Bakr ibn Yaḥyā al-Ṣūlī]], and included in the section of his book ''Kitāb Al-Awrāq'' ({{lang|ar|كتاب الاوراق}}) on ''muḥadathūn'' (modern poets).{{sfn|Ṣūlī (al-)|1934}}{{sfn|Nadīm (al-)|1970|p=331}}<ref>{{cite book|ref=harv|last=[[Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli|Ṣūlī (al-)]] |first= Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā| title= Kitāb al-Awrāķ (Section on Contemporary Poets)|editor-last=[[James Heyworth-Dunne|Heyworth-Dunne]]|editor-first=J|place= London|publisher= Luzac |year=1934|language= Arabic|isbn=|url=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|ref=harv|last=[[Ibn al-Nadim|Nadīm (al)]] |first= Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq Abū Ya’qūb al-Warrāq| title=The Fihrist of al-Nadim; a tenth-century survey of Muslim culture|editor-last=[[Bayard Dodge|Dodge]] |editor-first=Bayard |place=New York & London|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=1970|language= |isbn=|url=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|ref=harv|last=[[Ibn al-Nadim|Nadīm (al-)]]|first=Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq| title=Kitāb al-Fihrist|editor-last=[[Gustav Leberecht Flügel|Flügel]]|editor-first= Gustav|place=[[Leipzig]]|publisher=F.C.W. Vogel|year=1872|page=572 (150)|language=Arabic|isbn=|url= https://archive.org/details/KitabAlFihrist/page/n571}}</ref>