Abu'l-Mawadda Sayyid Muhammad Khalil al-Muradi (died 1791) — was a Syrian historian under the

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. He was born into a family of ulema and acted as

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and ''

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'' (head of the Prophet's descendants) in

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. He wrote a set of over 1,000 biographies of people of his time, entitled ''Silk al-durar''."al-Murādī." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill Online, 2012. 10 October 2012

Editions

*Khalīl b. ʿAlī al-Murādī. ''Kitāb Silk al-durar fī aʿyān al-qarn al-thānī ʿashar''. Būlāq: Al-Maṭbaʻah al-ʻĀmirah, 1874-83. *Muḥammad Khalīl b. ʿAlī al-Murādī. ''Kitāb Silk al-durar fī aʿyān al-qarn al-thānī ʿashar''. Ed. Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Qādir Shāhīn, 4 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyyah, 1997. *A sequence of twenty-nine mostly two-line '' maqāṭīʿ'' poems ending in the hemistich 'sweeter even than the juice of myrtle berries', which al-Murādī included in his entry for his uncle Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Murādī, is edited and translated by Adam Talib, ''How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic? Literary History at the Limits of Comparison'', Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, 40 (Leiden: Brill, 2018), pp. 94–115; .

References

18th-century historians from the Ottoman Empire People from Damascus 1791 deaths Year of birth unknown 18th-century Arabs {{Syria-historian-stub