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Ibn Al-Sharīf Dartarkhwān Al-‘Ādhilī
Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Riḍā ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Musāwī al-Ṭūsī, also known as Ibn al-Sharīf Dartarkhwān al-Ādhilī (b. 589 AH/1193 CE in Ḥamāh, Syria; d. 655 AH/1257 CE), was a poet. He is noted as the author of the ''Alf jāriyah wa-jāriyah'' ('one thousand and one slave-women'), which survives in one manuscript of 255 folios, now in the Austrian National Library. The work seems to have been a sequel to the same author's ''Alf ghulām wa-ghulām'' ('one thousand and one male slaves'), now lost; ''Alf jāriyah wa-jāriyah'' comprises eight chapters of short poems in the epigrammatic form known as '' maqṭū'' (pl. ''maqāṭī''). Examples The following examples come from the sixth chapter of ''Alf jāriyah wa-jāriyah'', in which each three-verse epigram celebrates the women of a different city of the Islamic world. This example is in the '' sarīʿ'' metre:Jürgen W. Weil,Girls from Morocco and Spain: Selected Poems from an ''adab'' Collection o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ḥamāh
Hama ( ar, حَمَاة ', ; syr, ܚܡܬ, ħ(ə)mɑθ, lit=fortress; Biblical Hebrew: ''Ḥamāṯ'') is a city on the banks of the Orontes River in west-central Syria. It is located north of Damascus and north of Homs. It is the provincial capital of the Hama Governorate. With a population of 854,000 (2009 census), Hama is the List of cities in Syria, fourth-largest city in Syria after Damascus, Aleppo and Homs. The city is renowned for Norias of Hama, its seventeen norias used for watering the gardens, which are locally claimed to date back to 1100 BC. Though historically used for purpose of irrigation, the norias exist today as an almost entirely aesthetic traditional show. Etymology The name "Hama" appears to stem from Phoenician language, Phoenician ''khamat'', "fort." History The ancient settlement of Hamath was occupied from the early Neolithic to the Iron Age. Neolithic The stratigraphy is very generalized, which makes detailed comparison to other sites difficult. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
