Maqamat Badi' az-Zaman al-Hamadhani
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Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani
Badi' al-Zamān al-Hamadāni or al-Hamadhāni was a Medieval Arab man of letters born in Hamathah . He is best known for his work the maqamat, a collection of 52 episodic stories of a rogue, Abu al-Fath al-Iskandari, as recounted by a narrator, 'Isa b. Hisham...
, (Arabic مقامات بديع الزمان الهمذاني), an Arabichttp://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/mhm/index.htm collection from the 9th century of 400 episodic stories, roughly 52 of which have survived. A century later, these maqamat inspired the maqamat of Al-Hariri of Basra
Al-Hariri of Basra
Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Hariri , popularly known as al-Hariri of Basra was an Arab poet, scholar of the Arabic language and a high government official of the Seljuk Empire...
, which in turn inspired the Hebrew Tahkemoni.
External links
- The Maqámát of Badí‘ al-Zamán al-Hamadhání The original version In Arabic (Wikisource)
- The Maqámát of Badí‘ al-Zamán al-Hamadhání English translation at sacred-texts.com