Al-Hariri of Basra (Arabic: أبو محمد القاسم بن علي بن محمد بن عثمان الحريري, romanized: Abū Muhammad al-Qāsim ibn ʿAlī ibn Muhammad ibn ʿUthmān al-Harīrī;...
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al-Ḥarīrī of Basra (1054–1122), a poet and government official of the Seljuk Empire. The text presents a series of tales regarding the adventures of the...
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Ali Hariri (1009-1079), Kurdish poet Al-Hariri of Basra (1054–1122), Arab poet, scholar of the Arabic language and a high government official of the Seljuk...
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within the genre are Badī' al-Zaman al-Hamadhāni, one of its earliest exponents, and al-Harīrī of Basra, whose maqāmāt are commonly held responsible for the...
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Writing-riddle (category History of writing)
Studies, 20 (2020), 53–89 (p. 54, quoting from al-Ibshīhī's Mustaṭraf fī kull fann mustaẓraf. The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian...
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exclusively in Arabic. Al-Hallaj was a Sunni Muslim. When he was twenty, al-Hallaj moved to Basra, where he married and received his Sufi habit from 'Amr Makkī,...
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responsibilities the Military Governorship of Basra in 1124. In order to counter the ambitions of Abbasid Caliph al-Mustarshid (1118-1135), who wanted to acquire...
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such as Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi and Ziryab, whose style later dominated in popularity. He has appeared in the Maqamat of Al-Hariri of Basra and One Thousand...
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century later, the writer, Al-Hariri of Basra elevated the maqamat into a major literary art form. Al-Hamadani’s Maqama made use of anecdotes collected in...
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Al-Shafi'i (Arabic: ٱلشَّافِعِيّ, romanized: al-Shāfiʿī; IPA: [a(l) ʃaːfiʕiː] ;767–820 CE) was a Muslim scholar, jurist, traditionist, theologian, ascetic...
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Apples Nur al-Din Ali and Shams al-Din (and Badr al-Din Hasan) Nur al-Din Ali and Anis al-Jalis Ali Ibn Bakkar and Shams al-Nahar The texts of the Syrian...
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famous of whom were: Al-Hariri, Al-Khatib Al-Tabrizi, and the judge of Basra, Abu Al-Faraj Al-Basri. He used to sell reeds, so he was nicknamed Al-Qasabani...
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Islamic flag (redirect from Alam al-Shahada)
(Arabic: العقاب, al-ʿuqāb); and a flag in black, said to be made from his wife Aisha's head-cloth. This larger flag was known as the "Banner of the Eagle" (Arabic:...
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than al-Jammāz. While still in Basra, al-Jāḥiẓ wrote an article about the institution of the Caliphate. This is said to have been the beginning of his...
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Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mutanabbī al-Kindī (Arabic: أبو الطيب أحمد بن الحسين المتنبّي الكندي; c. 915 – 23 September 965 AD) from Kufa, Abbasid...
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known as al-Farāhīdī, or al-Khalīl, was an Arab philologist, lexicographer and leading grammarian of Basra in Iraq. He made the first dictionary of the Arabic...
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founding of Basra (636 AD/15 AH), and was famous for his generosity and hospitality. Al-Farazdaq is considered to be one of the greatest classical poets of the...
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Rabia Basri (redirect from Rabiah of Basra)
around the city of Basra in southern Iraq in the eighth century CE. [...] The commonly accepted birth date of 717 CE and death date of 801 CE come from...
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Abbasid Caliphate (redirect from Al-Khilāfah al-‘Abbāsīyah)
L. (1969). "Al-Hazen: Father of Modern Optics". Al-'Arabi. 8: 12–13. PMID 11634474.[full citation needed] Visser, Reidar (2005). Basra, the Failed Gulf...
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Iraqi literature (redirect from Literature of Iraq)
as Al-Jahiz and Omar Khayyam. A number of stories in the One Thousand and One Nights feature the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid. Al-Hariri of Basra was...
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him a copy of the work by Al-Hariri of Basra (1054–1122) — also famous for his intelligence and power of memory — called Maqamat al-Hariri. Said read...
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Alaol (modern-day Bangladeshi) Al-Hallaj (Persian Sufi) Al-Hariri of Basra (Basra, Iraq) Al-Mutanabbi Al-Jahiz (Basra, Iraq) Al Mahmud (Poet, Bangladesh) Alamgir...
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Manichaeism. Ibn al-Muqaffa, though a resident of Basra, was originally from the town of Goor (or Gur, Firuzabad, Fars) in the Iranian province of Fars and was...
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Arabic literature (redirect from History of Arabic literature)
as Al-Jahiz and Omar Khayyam. A number of stories in the One Thousand and One Nights feature the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid. Al-Hariri of Basra was...
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ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī Ḥazm al-Qarashī (Arabic: علاء الدين أبو الحسن عليّ بن أبي حزم القرشي ), known as Ibn al-Nafīs (Arabic: ابن النفيس)...
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illustrator of al-Hariri's Maqamat dated 1237 CE (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Arabe 5847). Al-Wasiti was probably born in Wasit, south of Baghdad. In...
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celebration of the Divine Liturgy. September 2 – Sukjong, ruler of Goryeo (d. 1105) Al-Hariri of Basra, Abbasid poet and scholar (d. 1122) Bohemond I of Antioch...
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Abu al-Ala Ahmad ibn Abd Allah ibn Sulayman al-Tanukhi al-Ma'arri (Arabic: أبو العلاء أحمد بن عبد الله بن سليمان التنوخي المعري, romanized: ʾAbū al-ʿAlāʾ...
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Ghiyath ibn Ghawth ibn al-Salt ibn Tariqa al-Taghlibi (Arabic: غياث بن غوث بن الصلت بن طارقة التغلبي) commonly known as al-Akhtal (Arabic: الأخطل) (The...
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