History Carved on a Tombstone

This paper aims to edit and analyse an unpublished Arabic tombstone from the Ibn ʿAbbās public cemetery in Ṭāʾif. It also explores a related historical theme, i.e., the continuity of the descendants of an Arab poet down to the twelfth century. This tombstone contains the name of a deceased individual, linked to Yazīd b. Miqsam al-Thaqafī, an influential poet from Ṭāʾif in the eighth century AD (second century AH). This connection necessitates an examination of the poet Yazīd b. Miqsam al-Thaqafī's family to establish connections between the deceased and Yazīd, as well as the relationship between Yazīd and the Umayyad caliphs.