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٤٠٠ 400 Further Reading Main pre-modern sources for al-Maʿarrī’s life Most of the following and many other shorter passages are also found in two compilations of biographical material on al-Maʿarrī: Taʿrīf al-qudamāʾ bi-Abī l-ʿAlāʾ, and Muḥammad Salīm al-Jundī, al-Jāmiʿ fī akhbār Abī l-ʿAlāʾ. For bibliographical details see the Bibliography. al-Thaʿālibī (d. 429/1038), Tatimmat al-Yatīmah, p. 16. al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī (d. 463/1071), Tārīkh Baghdād, iv, 240. al-Bākharzī (d. 467/1075), Dumyat al-qaṣr, i, 129–37. Abū l-Barakāt Ibn al-Anbārī (d. 577/1181), Nuzhat al-alibbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-udabāʾ, pp. 257–59. Ibn al-Jawzī (d. 597/1201), al-Muntaẓam, xvi, 22–27. Yāqūt (d. 626/1229), Muʿjam al-udabāʾ, iii, 107–218. (Ibn) al-Qifṭī (d. 646/1248), Inbāh al-ruwāh ʿalā anbāh al-nuḥāh, i, 81–118. Ibn al-ʿAdīm (d. 660/1262), Bughyat al-ṭalab fī tārīkh Ḥalab, pp. 863–913. , al-Inṣāf wa-l-taḥarrī fī dafʿ al-ẓulm wa-l-tajarrī ʿan Abī l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿārrī, in Taʿrīf al-qudamāʾ bi-Abī l-ʿAlāʾ, pp. 483–578. Ibn Khallikān (d. 681/1282), Wafayāt al-aʿyān, i, 113–16. al-Dhahabī (d. 748/1348), Tārīkh al-Islām: Ḥawādith wa-wafayāt 441–50, 451–60, pp. 198–220. al-Ṣafadī (d. 764/1363), al-Wāfī bil-Wafayāt, vii, 94–111. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿAbbāsī (d. 963/1556), Maʿāhid al-tanṣīṣ, i, 48–52. Editions of Risālat Ibn al-Qāriḥ and Risālat al-Ghufrān Ibrāhīm al-Yāzijī, ed. Cairo: al-Maṭbaʿah al-Hindiyyah, 1903. Kāmil Kaylānī (Kīlānī), ed. Cairo: Dār al-Maʿārif, [1943]. Michel Dechico, “La Risāla d’Ibn al-Qāriḥ: traduction et étude lexicographique,” Thèse pour le Doctorat de 3e Cycle, Paris: Université de Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1980 [also contains an edition of the Arabic text]. Mufīd Qumayḥah, ed. Beirut: Dār Maktabat al-Hilāl, 1986. ʿĀʾisha ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Bint al-Shāṭiʾ, ed., 9th ed. Cairo: Dār al-Maʿārif, 1993 [the basis of the present translation; 1st edition 1954, based on her doctoral dissertation, University of Cairo, 1950]. ٤٠١ 401 Further Reading Muḥammad al-Iskandarānī and Inʿām Fawwāl, eds. Beirut: Dār al-Kātib al-ʿArabī, 2011. ʿAlī Ḥasan Fāʿūr, ed. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyyah [not consulted]. Translations of Risālat Ibn al-Qāriḥ and Risālat al-Ghufrān Abou’ l’Ala de Maarra. Le Message du Pardon. Tr. M.-S. Meïssa. Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1932. Abul Ala’ Al Ma‘arri. Risalat ul Ghufran: A Divine Comedy. Tr. from the Arabic by G. Brackenbury . Cairo: al-Maaref, n.d. [preface dated 1943]. Abûl-ʿAlâ al-Maʿarrî. L’Épître du pardon. Trad., introd. et notes par Vincent-Mansour Monteil . Paris: Gallimard, 1984 (also contains a translation of Risālat Ibn al-Qāriḥ). Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī. Paradies und Hölle. Die Jenseitsreise aus dem Sendschreiben über die Vergebung. Aus dem Arabischen übersetzt und herausgegeben von Gregor Schoeler. München: C.H. Beck, 2002 [For a study and translation of the Preamble, see Gregor Schoeler, “Abū l-Alāʾ al-Maʿarrīs Prolog zum Sendschreiben über die Vergebung,” in Rainer Brunner et al., ed., Islamstudien ohne Ende. Festschrift für Werner Ende zum 65. Geburtstag , Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2002 (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, LIV, 1), pp. 417–28 (translation pp. 422–28)]. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿārrī. L’epistola del perdone. Il viaggio nell’aldilà. Cura e tradizione di Martino Diez. Torino: Nuova Universale Einaudi, 2011. Some modern studies ʿAbbūd, Mārūn. Zawbaʿat al-duhūr. [Beirut:] Dār al-Makshūf, 1945. al-ʿAbd, ʿAbd al-Ḥakīm ʿAbd al-Salām. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī wa-naẓrah jadīdah ilayh: Tamḥīṣ naqdī ḥaḍārī wa-fannī. 2 vols. Alexandria: Dār al-Maṭbūʿāt al-Jadīdah, 1993. ʿAbd...