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Identification
Faraḥ Wad al-Tuktūk al-Baṭḥānī
فرح ود التكتوك البطحاني
Faraḥ b. Muḥammad b. ʻĪsā b. Qudūr b. ʻAbdal b. ʻAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad al-Abṭaḥ
فرح بن محمد بن عيسى بن قدور بن عبدل بن عبد الله بن محمد الأبطح
Titles: šayḫ
Dates
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Floruit
Estimated
Biographic comments
A celebrated poet and seer, many of his poems, saying and prophecies survived orally, only to be written at a much later time. He is said to have been a contemporary of Ḫōǧalī b. ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (d. 1155/1743); he studied with Arbāb b. ʻAlī and Ḥamad w. Umm Maryōm (d. 1142/1729-30). He made the pilgrimage and is also said to have studied with Muḥammad Murtaḍā al-Zabīdī (d. 1205/1791). He was buried at Tirayra, just north of Sinnār.
Additional information
References
- Place Place of death Tirayra, Sennār, SD