Abū ʿAlī Muḥmmad b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Muẓaffar al-Ḥātimī () (died Baghdad 26 April 998 CE
7 Rabīʿ II 388 AH was an Arabic-language scholar.
Works
His key works of which substantial portions survive are:
[S. A. Bonebakker, 'al-Ḥātimī', in ''Encyclopaedia of Islam'', ed. by P. Bearman and others, 2nd edn (Leiden: Brill, 1960-2007), .]
* ''al-Risāla al-mūḍiḥa
ī dḥikr sariḳāt Abi ’l-Ṭayyib al-Mutanabbī wa-saḳiṭ s̲h̲iʿrih D̲j̲abhat al-adab, Munāẓarat Abī Alī al-Ḥātimī li-Abi ’l-Ṭayyib'', a tract in the form of a dialogue between Aristotle and the poet
al-Mutanabbī, who is caricatured and whose poetry is criticised. (This was allegedly followed by a ''Risāla Ḥāūmiyya'', now lost, reversing al-Ḥātimī's previous position to praise al-Mutanabbī.)
** Fu'ād Afrām al-Bustānī (ed.), 'Ar-Risāla al-Ḥātimīya', ''Machriq'', 29 (1931), 132-9, 196-204, 273-80, 348-55, 461-4, 623-32, 759-67, 854-9, 925-34
lso published as a single volume: Beirut: Imprimerie Catholique, 1931
** O. Rescher (ed. and trans.),
Die Risālet El-Hātimijje, ''Islamica'', 2 (1926), 439-73 (a facsimile edition with translation).
** Yosef Tobi, 'The Hebrew Transcription of ''Risālat al-Hātimī'': A Comparative Study Between Sayings Attributed to Aristotle and Poetic Verses Attributed to Mutanabbī (Cambridge, T.S. Arabic, 45.2)', in ''Between Hebrew and Arabic Poetry: Studies in Spanish Medieval Hebrew Poetry'' (Leiden: Brill, 2010), . Includes transcription and translation.
* ''Ḥilyat al-muḥāḍara''
the qualities of lecturing'
** Yaakov Mashiah,
The Terminology of Hebrew Prosody and Rhetoric with Special Reference to Arabic Origins (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1975),
** ''Ḥilyat al-muḥāḍara, fī ṣinā‘at al-shi‘r'', ed. by Ja‘far al-Kattānī (Baghdad, 1979)
** Seeger A. Bonebakker, 'Sariqa and Formula: Three Chapters from Ḥātimī's ''Ḥilyat al-Muḥāḍara''’, ''Annali, Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli'', 46 (1986), 367–89.
** Seeger A. Bonebakker,
Four Chapters from the "Ḥilyat al-muḥāḍara" — Arabic Texts, ''Quaderni di Studi Arabi'', 17 (1999), 29-52
Further reading
* Geert Jan van Gelder,
The Poet as a Body-Builder: On a Passage from al-Ḥātimī's "Ḥilyat al-Muḥāḍara", ''Journal of Arabic Literature'', 13 (1982), 58–65.
* Yosef Tobi, 'Preliminary Study in ''Ḥilyat al-Muḥāḍara''
Mby Abū ʿAlī Muḥmmad al-Ḥātimī: The "Lost" Source of Moše Ibn Ezra for his ''Kitāb al-Muḥāḍara wa-al-Mudhākara''
MM, in ''Between Hebrew and Arabic Poetry: Studies in Spanish Medieval Hebrew Poetry'' (Leiden: Brill, 2010), pp. 355–68 .
References
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998 deaths
Year of birth unknown
10th-century Arab people
10th-century Arabic-language poets