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Ibn Durayd Abu Bakr Muhammad (837–933)

Ibn Durayd Abu Bakr Muhammad (ibn dō-rīd’). An Arabic poet and philologist; born at Basra, 837; died in Bagdad, 933. He wrote, among other things, a celebrated elegy on the mutability of fortune, which has been translated and commented upon.