Tammam ibn Alqama

Tammām ibn ʿĀmir ibn Aḥmad ibn Ghālib ibn Tammām ibn ʿAlqama al-Thaqafī al-Wazīr (803/810–896) was an Arab high official and poet in the Emirate of Córdoba. He made an important historiographical contribution to the literature of al-Andalus.

Ibn ʿAlqama was a descendant of Abū Ghālib Tammām ibn ʿAlqama of the Banū Thaqīf. He is sometimes confused with his ancestor. There are conflicting records of his birth year. He was said to be 96 lunar years old when he died in AD 896 (AH 283), which would place his birth in 803 (AH 187). Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, citing Ibn al-Abbār, however, places his birth in 809 or 810 (AH 194).