Maqāmāt al-barbīr / Max Robert Shmookler, Mohammad Diaa Eddin Alaswad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Diaa Eddin Alaswad, Mohammad, Editor.

Shmookler, Max, Editor.

Max Weber Stiftung, Funder.

Series:

Bibliotheca Islamica Series

Bibliotheca Islamica ; 50

Language:

Arabic

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]

Language Note:

In Arabic.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Introduction to Maqamat al-Barbir

Maqamat al-Barbir

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Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jan 2024)

ISBN:

3-11-079811-5

OCLC:

1419789364