Al-Hariri of Basra

Al -Hariri, also known as 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 - ʿ Alī bin Muhammad bin Qāsim 'm ʿ Uthman bin al -Hariri al - Basri; * 1054 in Mashan bai Basra, † September 10, 1122 ) was an Arab poet and grammarian. He is known primarily for his Makamen.

Life

He came from a family of landowners from Mashan in Basra, where he spent his childhood. His studies he completed in Basra and served at court as Sahib al - Chabar, ie " Director of Intelligence ", a feature that was taken over by his descendants.

His most famous work are the Makamen that represent a very close imitation of the work of al - Hamadhani. The belles narrator Ibn Hammam corresponds to Ibn Hisham Hamadhani, and the vagrant protagonist Abu Said is modeled by Abu Fadhl.

The Makamen of Hariri enjoyed an extraordinary success and found imitators in Arabic, Persian, Hebrew and Syriac. In the West they were first known by partial translations. The Dutch orientalist Jacob Gool ( Jacobus Golius ) published in 1656 some Makamen in Latin. However, have become known especially the French translation by Silvestre de Sacy (1822 ) and the German paraphrase of Friedrich Rückert ( The transformations of the Ebu silk of Serug or Makamen of Hariri, in free replica, Part 1, 1826, 2nd edition 1837 FULL ).

From two grammatical works Hariri, the Mulhat al -i ʿ rab, a treatise on Arabic syntax in verse, and the Durrat al - ghawwāṣ, on Arabic phrases to fragments " anthology grammaticale arabe " found in Sacys (Paris 1829).