Maqāmāt al-barbīr / / 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 presente...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023] 2024 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | Arabic |
Series: | Bibliotheca Islamica ;
50 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (188 p.) |
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Summary: | 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. |
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Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110798111 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110798111?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Max Robert Shmookler, Mohammad Diaa Eddin Alaswad. |