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''Hadith Bayāḍ wa Riyāḍ'' ( ar, حديث بياض ورياض, "The Story of Bayad and Riyad") is a 13th-century Arabic love story. The main characters of the tale: Bayad, a merchant's son and a foreigner from
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, Riyad, a well-educated slave girl in the court of an unnamed
Hajib A ''hajib'' or ''hadjib'' ( ar, الحاجب, al-ḥājib, to block, the prevent someone from entering somewhere; It is a word "hajb" meaning to cover, to hide. It means "the person who prevents a person from entering a place, the doorman". The ...
(
vizier A vizier (; ar, وزير, wazīr; fa, وزیر, vazīr), or wazir, is a high-ranking political advisor or minister in the near east. The Abbasid caliphs gave the title ''wazir'' to a minister formerly called '' katib'' (secretary), who was ...
or minister) of 'Iraq (
Mesopotamia Mesopotamia ''Mesopotamíā''; ar, بِلَاد ٱلرَّافِدَيْن or ; syc, ܐܪܡ ܢܗܪ̈ܝܢ, or , ) is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the ...
), and a "Lady" (al-sayyida). The ''Hadith Bayad wa Riyad'' manuscript is one of three surviving illustrated manuscripts from medieval al-Andalus (in modern
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and
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). Many non-illustrated Andalusi books do survive, so illustrated manuscripts may have been rare. The manuscript is in the
Vatican Library The Vatican Apostolic Library ( la, Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, it, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana), more commonly known as the Vatican Library or informally as the Vat, is the library of the Holy See, located in Vatican City. Formally es ...
, where it is catalogued as Codex Vat. Arabo 368.


Gallery

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See also

* Arabic epic literature *
Arabic literature Arabic literature ( ar, الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: ''al-Adab al-‘Arabī'') is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is '' Adab'', which is derived from ...


Further reading

* Alois R. Nykl. ''Historia de los amores de Bayad wa Riyad: Una chantefable oriental en estilo persa (Vat. Ar. 368)''. New York: Hispanic Society of America, 1941.
Arianna D'Ottone, ''Il manoscritto Vaticano arabo 368: Hadith Bayad wa Riyad. Il codice, il testo, le immagini: alcune note'', «Rivista di Storia della Miniatura» 14 (2010): 55-70
* ''La storia di Bayad e Riyad (Vat.ar. 368). Una nuova edizione e traduzione'', ed. and trans. Arianna D'Ottone. Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2013 (Studi e Testi 479). .

. *Cynthia Robinson, ''Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture in the Mediterranean: Hadith Bayad Wa Riyad''. New York: Routledge, 2007. .


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External links


Al-Andalus: the art of Islamic Spain
an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Hadith Bayad wa Riyad (see index) 13th-century Arabic books Islamic illuminated manuscripts 13th-century illuminated manuscripts Manuscripts of the Vatican Library Islamic art of Spain Medieval Arabic literature Love in Arabic literature {{manuscript-stub