Maqámát of Badí' al-Zamán al-Hamadhání
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Ahmad Ibn Hanbal
Al Hamid
Al Ḥamíd
arab
Arabic
Arabic Language
Arabic narrative forms
Art Thou
Artemisia Abrotanum
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Base Men
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Category=QRVG
classical Arabic literature
Dead Man
Epistolary Art
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Hill Tops
hisham
historical Arabic discourse analysis
ibn
isa
khallikan
linguistic variation Middle East
Mayest Thou
medieval rhetoric
nuwas
philological studies
proverbs
Pulpit Oratory
Rhymed Prose
rhymed prose analysis
rumi
sacy
Thou Art
Thou Desirest
Thou Didst
Thou Hast
Thou Wilt
Thou Wouldst
Vagabond Scholar
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138939790
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Oct 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The triple aim of Hamadhání in this work, first translated into English in 1915, appears to have been to amuse, to interest and to instruct; and this explains why, in spite of the inherent difficulty of a work of this kind composed primarily with a view to the rhetorical effect upon the learned and the great, there is scarcely a dull chapter in the fifty-one maqámát or discourses. The author essayed, throughout these dramatic discourses, to illustrate the life and language both of the denizens of the desert and the dwellers in towns, and to give examples of the jargon and slang of thieves and robbers as well as the lucubrations of the learned and the conversations of the cultured.
