Ali ibn Muhammad al-Iyadi
Abu 'al-Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad al-Iyadi was a Maghrebi Arabic poet in the tenth century from Tunis. He is the poet laureate of the Fatimids, having served the caliphs al-Qa'im, al-Mansur and al-Mu'iz. He wrote a well-known poem describing the Fatimid navy during al-Qa'im's reign, under whose reign the Fatimid fleet invaded Genoa and Sardinia.Biography
Ali ibn Mohmmad al-Iyadi born in Tunis. He joined the Fatimid state service in Kairouan and Mahdia during the days of Al-Qa'im, and Ismail al-Mansur.
al-Iyadi died in 976, probably in Cairo.
