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Makamat of Al Hariri of Basra

Makamat of Al Hariri of Basra

Preston, Theodore
Al Hariri, Abu Mohammed Al-Qasim Ali

Hardcover

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1850771413
ISBN13: 9781850771418
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Jul 7 1986
Pages: 522
Weight: 2.15
Height: 1.31 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Abu Mohammed Al-Qasim Ali, known as Al Hariri of Basra was an eleventh-century Arab merchant, grammarian and writer, who continued and developed a literary genre initiated by the Great Hamadhani.

The works of Al Hariri are considered among the classics of Arabian literature, representing a formal literary style incorporating a series of stories in rhymed prose, woven round the characters of a narrator and his amusing companion who turns up in many disguises. these stories, or Rhetorical Anecdotes form the collection known as the Makamat (Assemblies), in this context taken to mean discourse or conversation. they embody a precise literary form in which the subject matter is subordinate to the style.

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