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al- Mubarrad (3,335 words), Abu ’l- Abbās Mu ammad b. Yazīd b. Abdʿ ḥ ʿ al-Akbar al- umālīTh al-Azdī (his genealogy reaches back

to the āhiliyya; c. !"steneld,D j Tabellen , no. #$; %askel, Tafeln , no. $', celebrated hilologist,

)as born in al-*a ra on #$ u ’l- i a $+& March & (or bet)een & and / years earlier'.ṣ D h Ḥ dj dj

As tradition tells us, it )as in the circles ( ala āt ḥ ḳ ' o Ab0 1marʿ al- armī (d. &&/+23' and Ab0D j 1 mān ʿ th al-Māzinī 4q.v.5 that he came into close contact )ith the Kitāb o 6ība)ayh; moreo7er, he

took art in the scholarly discussions bet)een Ab0 ātimḤ al-6i istānī (d. &//+3', )ho )as a uil odj al-A ma ī, and Abu ’l-8araṣ ʿ dj al-9iyā ī (d. &/:+:#' on hilological uestions concerning ur ān andsh Ḳ ʾadī ḥ th , oetry and adab . lain the genesis o this la abḳ by )ay o anecdotes, the most realistic one tells us that Abu ’l- Abbāsʿ)as called al-mubarrid, i.e. al-mu bit li ’l- ath ḥ ḳḳ , ?he )ho airms truth@, because o his ingenious )ayo gi7ing ertinent ans)ers, and that others changed this name into al-mubarrad, ?the cooled one@.

cellence. =t originated in ublic, i.e.during the author’s teaching acti7ities, rom lectures and dictation. cursions on grammatical and le>icograhical uestions; no) and then, thesesections orm short indeendent chaters (c. chs. /$ and /&-2'.

Mention should also be made o al-Mubarrad’s redilection or 7erses containing a comarison+simile (ta bīhsh ', to )hich he reeatedly dedicates )hole assages (. :- and 3-/&&; etc.', as )ell as o


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the chater entitled ?Jaments or the dead and consolation@ ( ta āzī ʿ ' to)ards the end o the book (.:#2-:$, or, i )e add the oems o more recent eriods and o the author’s o)n time, until . :::'. Alarge art o these mourning 7erses and mourning oems aear again in his late )ork, the K. al-Ta āzī ʿ (see belo), no. 2', )here he reers to his K. al-Kāmil (. 2$#'

(&' K. al-Fā ilḍ ( wa ’l-maf lḍ ', another adab-)ork, though o much smaller size (!a. #+#$'. =t is better

structured, but this is not consistently maintained; it is di7ided into #/ chaters (bāb' and a inal one,consisting o : sections ( fa lṣ '. cellence o oetry, mostly embedded in ointed stories rom the time o the1mayyads, urther subKects areD generosity, grie, youth and old age, gratitude, en7y, elouence, andbeauty; and, as in al-Kāmil (see abo7e, no. #', )e ind se7eral casual remarks concerning the characterand aim o the small treatise (. , and 33'. Bis rincial authorities are al-Māzinī, al-9iyā ī,shand al- ( na wḥ ', as the title uts it, an e>temorised ( mu ta abḳ ḍ ' )ork.

, 6ezgin, i>,ḳ:3 and &$#'.

icograhy, and adab, such as nasab (genealogy', aremere lecture-notes; this can be concluded, among other things, rom the act that they ha7e no reaces.


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ed. 9ama ān Abdḍ ʿ al-, #$:.'; (' K al- awāfī wa-mā ’ tu at al ābuhā minhu Ḳ sh ḳḳ ḳ , ed. 9ama ān Abdḍ ʿ al-, '. , #/

1.9. Ca āla,ʿ ḥḥ $u amʿdj al-mu allifīnʾ , Famascus #2$+#3$, >ii, ## .

M. A. Mudarris,ʿ %ay ānatḥ al-adab &,


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6īrāī, A bārkh al-na wiyyīnḥ , Iaris-*eirut #32, 3-#$

Azharī, Tah ībdh al-lu ag h (introduction', in $', >i7 (#3&$', &

Gubaydī, aba ātṬ ḳ al-na wiyyīn wa ’l-lu awiyyīnḥ g h , %airo #2:2+#3/, #$-&$,&%airo #232+#3:2, #$#-

#$

Fihrist , /3

g h

=bn al-Anbārī, &uzhat al-alibbāʾ, %airo #2+#3:, :-&:

=bn al- a)zī,D j al-$unta am ẓ , Byderabad #2/:+#32, 7i, 3 .

Yā 0t,ḳ dabāʾ 7ii, #2:-

=bn al- i ī,Ḳ ṭ nbāh al-ruwāt alā anbāhʿ al-nu āt ḥ , %airo #2:+#3//, iii, &#-/2

=bn allikān, s.7.K h

aadī,Ṣ al-#āfī , !iesbaden-*eirut #23+#3:$, 7, -#

Yā ī,ʿ $ir ātʾ al- anāndj , Byderabad #22+#3#3, ii, $-2

=bn al- azarī,D j āyatG h al-nihāya fī aba ātṭ ḳ al- urrāḳ ʾ, Jeizig-%airo #2/&+#322, ii, &$

=bn ā ī uhba,Ḳ ḍ Sh aba ātṬ ḳ al-nu āt wa ’l-lu awiyyīnḥ g h , Ea a #23+#3:, &$-/dj

=bn a ar,Ḥ dj +isān al-$īzān, Byderabad #22#+#3#2, 7, 2$-&

6uy0 ī,ṭ Bu yag h , ## (%airo #2+#3, &3 .'

idem, al-$uzhir, %airo #2:+#3/, inde>

ā kNr"zāde,Ṭ sh $iftāḥ al-sa ādaʿ , %airo n.d. (!a. #3', i, #/: .

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