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| Other uniform titles: | Gruendler, Beatrice, 1964-
Muzāḥim ibn Fātik, active 10th century.
Ṣūlī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá, -approximately 947. Akhbār Abī Tammām.
Ṣūlī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá, -approximately 947. Akhbār Abī Tammām. English.
Ṣūlī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá, -approximately 947. Risālat Abī Bakr al-Ṣūlī ilá Muzāḥim ibn Fātik.
Ṣūlī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá, -approximately 947. Risālat Abī Bakr al-Ṣūlī ilá Muzāḥim ibn Fātik. English.
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| ISBN: | 9780814760031
0814760031
9780814770832
0814770835
9780814760406
0814760406
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
In English and Arabic.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Abu Tammam (d. 231 or 232/845 or 846) is one of the most celebrated poets in the Arabic language. Born in Syria of Greek Christian background, he soon made his name as one of the premier Arabic poets in the caliphal court of Baghdad. Abu Tammam vigorously promoted a new style of poetry that merged abstract and complex imagery with archaic Bedouin language. Both highly controversial and extremely popular, Abu Tammam's sophisticated verse epitomized the "modern style" (badi') that influenced all subsequent Arabic and Arabic-inspired poetry--an avant-garde aesthetic that was very much in step with the intellectual, artistic and cultural vibrancy of the Abbasid dynasty.In The Life and Times of Abu Tammam, translated into English for the first time, the courtier and scholar Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Suli (d. 335 or 336/946 or 947) mounts a robust defense of "modern" poetry and of Abu Tammam's significance as a poet against his detractors, while painting a lively picture of literary life in Baghdad and Samarra. Born into an illustrious family of Turkish origin, al-Suli was a courtier, companion, and tutor of the Abbasid caliphs who wrote extensively on caliphal history and poetry and, as a scholar of "modern" poets, made indelible contributions to the field of Arabic literature. Like the poet it promotes, al-Suli's text is groundbreaking; it represents a major step in the development of Arabic poetics, and inaugurates a long line of treatises on innovation in poetry.
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| Other form: | Print version: Ṣūlī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá, -approximately 947. Life and times of Abū Tammām by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá al-Ṣūlī 9780814760406
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