The Bosnian poet Dževad Karahasan wrote a play about al-Muqaffa. The world premiere was performed in 1994 during the war in Bosnia by the Bosnian actors Zijah Sokolović and Selma Alispahić from the National Theatre of Sarajevo under the direction of Herbert Gantschacher in a production of the Austrian theatre ARBOS - Company for Music and Theatre in Vienna