al-Hariri
Al-Hariri , also called Ibn al-Hariri , full name Abu Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman ibn al-Hariri al-Basri ( Arabic أبو محمد القاسم بن علي بن محمد بن عثمان بن الحريري البصري, DMG Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim bin ʿAlī bin Muḥammad bin ʿUṯman bin al-Ḥarīrī al-Baṣrī ; * 1054 in Mashan bai Basra ; † September 10, 1122 ) was an Arabic poet and grammarian. He is best known for his macaques .
life and work
Al-Hariri came from a family of landowners from Mashan near Basra, where he spent his childhood. He completed his studies in Basra , where he served at court as Sahib al-Khabar , d. H. "Chief of the intelligence service ", a function that his descendants took over.
His most famous work are the Makamen, which are a very close imitation of the work of al-Hamadhani . The aesthetic narrator Ibn Hammam corresponds to Hamadhani Ibn Hisham , and the vagabond protagonist Abu Said is modeled on Abu Fadhl .
The Makams of Hariri enjoyed enormous success and found imitators in Arabic, Persian, Hebrew and Syrian languages. In the West they first became known through partial translations. The Dutch orientalist Jakob Gool ( Jacobus Golius ) published some macams in Latin in 1656. The French translation of Silvestre de Sacy (1822) and the German adaptation by Friedrich Rückert ( Die Metamorphoses of Ebu Seid by Serûg or the Makâmen des Hariri , in free replica; Part 1 1826, 2nd completed edition 1837 ).
Fragments of two of Hariri's grammatical works, the Mulhat al-iʿrāb , a treatise on Arabic syntax in verse, and the Durrat al-ghawwāṣ , on Arabic idioms, can be found in Sacy's “Anthologie grammaticale arabe” (Paris 1829).
Formal, literary and symbolic references were recognized between Hariri's Makamen and the medieval Arabic shadow play .
literature
- Al-Ḥarīrī . In: The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition . Volume 3, EJ Brill, Leiden 1986, pp. 221a-222a.
- Hariri . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 8, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 161.
- Luisa Arvide Cambra, Las Maqamas de Al-Hariri , Grupo Editorial Universitario, Granada, 2009 ISBN 978-84-9915-051-2 .
- David J. Roxburgh: In Pursuit of Shadows: al-Hariri's Maqāmāt. In: Muqarnas Online, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2013, pp. 171–212
Web links
- Literature by and about al-Qāsim Ibn-ʿAlī al-Ḥarīrī in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | al-Hariri |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ibn al-Hariri; Abu Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman ibn al-Hariri al-Basri (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Arabic poet and grammarian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1054 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mashan bai Basra |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 10, 1122 |