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Book Of Gifts And Rarities
The ''Book of Gifts and Rarities'' is an Arabic history of wealth and ostentation from the 6th to 11th centuries. It was written in Egypt by an official of the Fatimid Caliphate sometime after 1071. The surviving form of the work is not complete and contains no attribution. It has been ascribed to a certain Al-Qāḍī al-Rashīd Aḥmad ibn al-Zubayr, but this is not universally accepted. Authorship The ''Book of Gifts and Rarities'' is strictly anonymous as it stands and its authorship contested. Ibn al-Zubayr The text's first editor, Muḥammad Ḥamīdallāh, identified the author as al-Qāḍī al-Rashīd Abū l-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn al-Qāḍī al-Rashīd ibn al-Zubayr. This name is known only from some citations by al-Ghūzūli, although Ḥamīdallāh argued that he was identical to the Muhadhdhab ibn al-Zubayr whose poetry is cited in al-Maqrīzī's ''Khiṭaṭ''. No al-Qāḍī al-Rashīd ibn al-Zubayr is mentioned in any of the biographical dictionaries that cover the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston, 2011. Having emerged in the 1st century, it is named after the Arabs, Arab people; the term "Arab" was initially used to describe those living in the Arabian Peninsula, as perceived by geographers from ancient Greece. Since the 7th century, Arabic has been characterized by diglossia, with an opposition between a standard Prestige (sociolinguistics), prestige language—i.e., Literary Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Classical Arabic—and diverse vernacular varieties, which serve as First language, mother tongues. Colloquial dialects vary significantly from MSA, impeding mutual intelligibility. MSA is only acquired through formal education and is not spoken natively. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
