al-Qabṭūrnuh, Banū - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Herdt, Andreas
Leiden
Brill
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The name Banū l-Qabṭūrnuh refers to three brothers from the Andalusī city of Badajoz (Ar. Baṭalyaws) famous for their Arabic prose and poetry. The lives of Abū Bakr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Abū Muḥammad Ṭalḥa, and Abū l-Ḥasan Muḥammad spanned the late fifth/eleventh century to the first half of the sixth/twelfth. All three brothers-sons of Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz who shared the nisba al-Baṭalyawsī-held high official positions at the court of the petty kingdom of the Banū l-Afṭas in Badajoz. After the