The Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī (Arabic: مقامات الحريري) is a collection of fifty tales or maqāmāt written at the end of the 11th or the beginning of the 12th century...

Pre-Islamic poetic canons. Although the maqamat did not originate with al-Hariri, he elevated the genre to an art form. Al-Hariri was born 446 AH (1054 AD) and...

authors 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...

as in the depiction of the emir in the frontispiece of the 1237 Maqamat of al-Hariri. The shape of the sharbush seems to have varied depending on geographical...

the scribe and illustrator of al-Hariri's Maqamat dated 1237 CE (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Arabe 5847). Al-Wasiti was probably born in Wasit...

a lot in common with Islamic illustrated manuscripts such as the Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī, pointing to a common pictorial tradition that existed since circa...

calligrapher. The Kitab al-baytarah has been used as an artistic reference to try to attribute a famous 1237 CE Maqamat al-Hariri manuscript (BNF Arabe...

The House of Wisdom (Arabic: بَيْت الْحِكْمَة Bayt al-Ḥikmah), also known as the Grand Library of Baghdad, was believed to be a major Abbasid-era public...

the limited usage of fur around the rim). An early edition of the Maqamat al-Hariri (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Arabe 3929) is also considered...

al-Din al-Subki (Arabic: ملوک الأکراد ,دولة الأکراد,الدولة الأيوبية الکردية, romanized: Dawlat al-Akrād, Al-Dawlat Al-Ayyūbīya Al-Kurdīya, Mūlūk Al-Akrād)...

writers. A 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...

children in Delhi (Shepherd & Robertson) circa 1863 Maqamat of Al-Hariri. Page from the manuscript of Nihayat al-Sawl; Egypt, Mamluk era, 15th cent.; Museum of...

Golshah, mid-13th century Seljuk Anatolia Turkic amir with guards in Maqamat al-Hariri, wearing the sharbush headgear, the three-quarters length robe, and...

Ltd, 1971. (ISBN 0-8122-1766-7) Shah, Amina (1980). The assemblies of al-Hariri : fifty encounters with the Shaykh Abu Zayd of Seruj. London : Octagon...

Tauris. p. 197. ISBN 1860648363. 'Abd al-Samad al-Mawza'i (1986). al-Ihsan fî dukhûl Mamlakat al-Yaman taht zill Adalat al-'Uthman [الإحسان في دخول مملكة اليمن...

performance in his maqāmāt played a great role in creating their prosimetric style. A century later, these maqamat inspired the maqamat of Al-Hariri of Basra,...

distinguish the "official" garb from the "Arab" garb, as also seen in the Maqamat al-Hariri manuscripts. One attendant in frontispiece 4 is in non-military “Arab”...

calligrapher. The Kitāb al-bayṭara has been used as an artistic reference to try to attribute a famous 1237 CE Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī manuscript (Paris, Bibliothèque...

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 one page...

history. In the beginning of the 9th century, Merv was the seat of the caliph al-Ma'mun and the capital of the entire Islamic caliphate. It served later as...

MS 5 B VIII (Miscellany) Basra, Abbasid Caliphate, Maqamat al-Hariri (The Assemblies of al-Hariri) Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 735C (Aratus...

tradition are uncertain, but Arabic illustrated manuscripts such as the Maqamat al-Hariri shared many characteristics with Christian Syriac illustrated manuscripts...

al-Andalus, in the 10th century, was Ibn Wahshiyya's al-Filāḥa al-Nabaṭiyya (Nabatean Agriculture), from Iraq; it was followed by texts written in al-Andalus...

Al-Mustansir Bi'llah (full name:Abû Ja`far al-Mustansir bi-llah al-Mansûr bin az-Zâhir surname al-Mustansir), (17 February 1192 – 2 December 1242) was...

the role in elucidation of the principles of Islamic jurisprudence (Uṣūl al-Fiqh) and the Islamic law (sharīʿa), the qāḍī remained the key person ensuring...

ancestors including Al-Hariri of Basra, the 11th-century poet, philosopher, and linguist known for authoring the Maqamat al-Hariri; Ali al-Hariri-Rifa'i, the...

a lot in common with Islamic illustrated manuscripts such as the Maqamat al-Hariri, pointing to a common pictorial tradition that existed since circa...

held within. He memorized the al-dawawin (collected poems) of Maqamat Badi' az-Zaman al-Hamadhani and Maqama of Al-Hariri and the histories of the Arabs...

Ḥarīrī al-Baṣrī, Muḥammad al-Qāsim ibn ʿAlī al- (1054-1122); texte, Al-QĀSIM ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥarīrī (Abū Muḥammad) Auteur du (1201–1300). "Les Maqâmât d'Aboû...

second Shia imam who claimed to be the Hashemite family), the theologian Al-Qasim al-Rassi formulated the teachings of Zaid, a Shiite sect. At the end of...