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Maqāmāt Al-Barbīr

Maqāmāt Al-Barbīr

Shmookler, Max Robert
Diaa Eddin Alaswad, Mohammad

Hardcover

Series: Bibliotheca Islamica, Book 50

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ISBN10: 3110796961
ISBN13: 9783110796964
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Dec 18 2023
Pages: 188
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.60
Language: Arabic
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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