Maqamat al-barbir

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-11-079696-4
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Arabisch, Englisch, Band 50, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 452 g

Reihe: Bibliotheca Islamica

A?mad bin ?Abd al-La?if bin Mu?ammad al-Barbir (1747-1811) was a late eighteenth century , poet, critic, and 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 presented here in print for the first time. This work, entitled , is edited based on MS Dar 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 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 Nah?a.

Zielgruppe

Historians, scholars in Arabic and Islamic studies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shmookler, Max Robert

Diaa Eddin Alaswad, Mohammad

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Koran, Heilige Texte & Traditionsliteratur

Über Autor(innen)

Max Robert Shmookler, Columbia University, New York City, USA; Mohammad Diaa Eddin Alaswad, Damaskus, Syrien.

Max Robert Shmookler, Columbia University, New York City, USA; Mohammad Diaa Eddin Alaswad, Damascus, Syria.

Max Robert Shmookler, Columbia University, New York City, USA; Mohammad Diaa Eddin Alaswad, Damaskus, Syrien.