Durrat al-ghawwāṣ fī awhām al-khawāṣṣ

Name: Durrat al-ghawwāṣ fī awhām al-khawāṣṣ
Author: Al-Hariri

Al-Hariri

General & OtherArabic

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Author: Al-Hariri
Category: General & Other
Language: Arabic
Source: HathiTrust

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“Durrat al-ghawwāṣ fī awhām al-khawāṣṣ” is a book by Al-Hariri in the “General & Other” category, written in Arabic. It is in the public domain, so you can read it for free from the open source using the buttons above. If you enjoyed it, press Like to help others find it. Similar books are listed below.

About the author

Abu Muhammad al-Qasim al-Hariri (1054–1122) was a wealthy official of Basra and a master of the Arabic language. His fifty Maqamat follow the wanderings of the eloquent rogue Abu Zayd of Saruj, who in every episode tricks his audience with a dazzling speech, as told by the narrator al-Harith ibn Hammam.

The Maqamat are a festival of wordplay, rhymed prose and rare vocabulary, and for centuries they were memorised and studied across the Arab world; illustrated manuscripts such as the famous one painted by al-Wasiti in 1237 are treasures of Islamic art. He followed the model created by al-Hamadhani.

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