Kuthayyir ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥman () (c. 660 – c. 723), commonly known as Kuthayyir ‘Azzah () was an Arab 'Udhri poet of the Umayyad period from the tribe of Azd.Ibn Khallikan. wafayat alayan p. 524. alwarraq edition. He was born in Medina and resided in Hijaz and Egypt. In his poems he was occupied with his unfulfilled love to a married woman named 'Azza. Favorite topics in his poetry are love and panegyrics. He made acquaintance of the governor Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan and the caliphs Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz and Yazid II.Starkey and Meisami. Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, Routledge, 1998. He is mentioned as one of the followers of the now-extinct Kaysaniyya sect of Shi'ism, which held that Ali's third son Muhammad ibn Al-Hanafiyya would return as the Mahdi.Michael G. Morony Iraq After the Muslim Conquest. p. 491-492.
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See also Jamil ibn Ma'mar List of Arabic language poets List of Shi'a Muslims