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٣٧٠ 370 Glossary of Names and Terms (Names are given as they appear in the text. Where necessary, a fuller version of them is given in parentheses). abārīq pl. of ibrīq (q.v.). ʿAbd Allāh ibn (al-)ʿAbbās see Ibn (al-)ʿAbbās. ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar (d. 80/699 or some years later) nephew of the fourth caliph, ʿAlī, known for his generosity; friends with several famous singers, including Budayḥ, who was his mawlā (“client”). ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān (r. 65–86/685–705) Umayyad caliph. ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Qurayb (d. ca. 216/831) famous philologist better known as al-Aṣmaʿī; specialist in ancient Arabic language, lore, and poetry; rival of Abū ʿUbaydah. ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Aḥmad (Abū Yaʿlā) judge known as al-Qāḍī al-Aswad (“the black judge”) who lived in Aleppo in the author’s time. ʿAbīd (ʿAbīd ibn al-Abraṣ al-Asadī; first half of the sixth century ad) famous pre-Islamic poet. Abū “father of.” Abū l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Khalaf al-Mumattaʿ (Abū l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Khalaf ibn ʿAlī al-Maʿarrī, known as al-Mumattaʿ, dates unknown) a man of letters and poet from Aleppo; a pupil of Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, who composed elegies on his death (Ibn al-ʿAdīm, Bughyat al-ṭalab, pp. 725–30). Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Jawhar (executed in 401/1011) Fatimid general; son of Jawhar, the conqueror of Egypt for the Fatimids. Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Rizām al-Ṭāʾī al-Kūfī (fl. 340/951) antiIsm āʿīlī polemicist. Abū ʿAlī al-Fārisī (d. 377/987) important grammarian born in southern Iran, active in Aleppo and Baghdad. Abū ʿAmr ibn al-ʿAlāʾ (d. ca. 159/776) philologist from Baṣra, one of the earliest scholars who systematically collected early poetry; also a famous Qurʾan reciter. ٣٧١ 371 Glossary of Names and Terms Abū ʿAmr al-Shaybānī (d. ca. 213/828) a lexicographer from Kufa. Abūl-Aswadal-Duʾalī (d.ca. 69/688)aminorpoetfamousastheallegedfounder of Arabic grammatical studies in Basra; the report is probably spurious. Abū l-ʿAtāhiyah (d. 210/825) a poet famous for his ascetic, world-renouncing poetry. Abū Bakr (r. 11–13/632–4) one of the earliest converts, the father of ʿĀʾishah who became the Prophet’s favorite wife; the first caliph. Abū Bakr ibn Durayd (d. 321/933) an important lexicographer as well as a poet; he died at a very advanced age. Abū Bakr ibn Mujāhid (Aḥmad ibn Mūsā ibn Mujāhid; d. 324/936) influential Baghdadi specialist in the Qurʾanic textual variants. Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-ʿArzamī (d. after 133/750) minor poet from Kufa. Abū Bakr al-Shiblī (d. 334/945 in Baghdad) early mystic; a follower of al-Ḥallāj for a while but turned against him at the latter’s trial. Abū Dhuʾayb poet of Hudhayl; a younger contemporary of the Prophet who participated in the early conquests. Abū l-Faraj al-Zahrajī nothing is known about him; the text notes that he was the state secretary at the court of Naṣr al-Dawlah. Abū Ḥafṣ al-Kattānī (Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Kattānī; d. 390/1000) Qurʾanic scholar from Baghdad. Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā (d. 334/946 at an advanced age) a vizier under the caliphs al-Muqtadir and al-Qāhir, known for his righteousness and learning. Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā al-Rummānī see Rummānī, ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā al-. Abū l-Ḥasan al-Maghribī, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn (killed in 400/1009) the father of al-Wazīr al-Maghribī, who held offices under Sayf al-Dawlah in Aleppo and later in Cairo. Abū l-Hindī (d. ca. 132/750) poet from the late Umayyad period known for his Bacchic verse. Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Khayyāṭ see Khayyāṭ, Abū l-Ḥusayn al-. Abū ʿĪsā (d. 209/824–25) a son of Hārūn al-Rashīd; he was a bit of a rake. Abū Kabīr al-Hudhalī, ʿĀmir ibn al-Ḥulays (d. probably early seventh century ad) poet of Hudhayl; little is known about him. Apart from some fragments only four odes of his have been preserved, all with the same opening words. [3.145...

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