Author
Mohammad Diaa Eddin Alaswad editor (Editor) http://idlocgov/vocabulary/relators/edt, Max Robert Shmookler editor (Editor) http://idlocgov/vocabulary/relators/edt
Publication Date
2023 - 2024
Publication Place
Berlin ; Boston -
De Gruyter
Subject
RELIGION / Islam / Koran & Sacred Writings
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
188
Library
Royal Danish Library
Library Asset ID
ISBN : 3-11-079811-5, ISBN : 3-11-079696-1
Record ID
alma99125226008005763
Library Location
Royal Danish Library
Date
2023 - 2024
Notes
Max Robert Shmookler, Mohammad Diaa Eddin Alaswad., Aḥmad bin ʿAbd al-Laṭīf bin Muḥammad al-Barbīr (1747-1811) was a late eighteenth century adīb, poet, critic, and muftī of Beirut. Born and educated in Egypt of Levantine parents, he travelled to Beirut as a young man and subsequently settled in Damascus, where he composed the lengthy maqāma presented here in print for the first time. This work, entitled Maqāmāt al-Barbīr, is edited based on MS Dār al-Kutub 480 Adab. The scribe of this unique 50-folio manuscript is unknown. This work not only provides a rich portrait of social and cultural life in late-eighteenth-century Ottoman Damascus, but also offers a different and fascinating understanding of the maqāma as a literary form in a historical moment centuries after the classical masters of the genre and just a generation before the transformations of the Nahḍa., In Arabic.
Baskı
1st ed.
Diğer sınıflandırma
PJ7519.W37
