| Kuthayyir | |
| Birth Name: | Kuthayyir ibn 'Abd al-Rahman |
| Birth Date: | c. 660 |
| Birth Place: | Medina |
| Death Date: | c. 723 |
| Occupation: | Poet |
| Language: | Arabic |
| Nationality: | Arab |
| Period: | Umayyad period |
| Genre: | Love poetry, Panegyric |
| Patron: | Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan, Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, Yazid II |
Kuthayyir ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥman (c. 660 - c. 723), commonly known as Kuthayyir ‘Azzah (ar|كثيّر عزّة) was an Arab 'Udhri poet of the Umayyad period from the tribe of Azd.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]
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