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Maqāmāt al-barbīr
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Edited by:
Max Robert Shmookler
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Funded by:
Max Weber Stiftung
Languages:
Arabic, English
Published/Copyright:
2024
About this book
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.
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Max Robert Shmookler, Columbia University, New York City, USA; Mohammad Diaa Eddin Alaswad, Damascus, Syria.
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eBook published on:
December 18, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9783110798111
Hardcover published on:
December 18, 2023
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110796964
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188
Audience(s) for this book
Historians, scholars in Arabic and Islamic studies
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