Maqamat al-barbir (Bibliotheca Islamica)

Shmookler, Max Robert (EDT)/ Diaa Eddin Alaswad, Mohammad (EDT)

De Gruyter; Max Weber Stiftung（2023発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版
• 商品コード 9783110796964

Description

Bibliotheca Islamica (BI) is the Orient-Institut Beirut's platform for the critical edition of mainly Arabic texts. The series dates back to 1929, when Hellmut Ritter edited the Kitab Maqalat al-islamiyin wa- tilaf al-musallin of Abu l-Hasan Ali al-Asari, a seminal text on dogmatic positions in the early Islamic period. Since then, the OIB has published more than fifty titles in this series. Ahmad bin Abd al-La if bin Muhammad al-Barbir (1747-1811) was a late eighteenth century adib, poet, critic, and mufti 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 maqama presented here in print for the first time. This work, entitled Maqamat al-Barbir, is edited based on MS Dar 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 maqama 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 Nahda. Max Robert Shmookler, Columbia University, New York City, USA; Mohammad Diaa Eddin Alaswad, Damaskus, Syrien.