Badi' az-Zaman al-Hamadhani
- Badi' az-Zaman al-Hamadhani
Badi' al-Zamān al-Hamadāni or Badi' al-Zamān al-Hamadhāni (967 - 1007; Arabic: بديع الزمان الهمذاني) was a tenth century master of
Arabic prose . His main work was the maqamat, a collection of 52 episodic stories of a rogue, Abu al-Fath al-Iskandari, as recounted by a narrator, 'Isa b. Hisham. He was also known as "Badi uz-Zaman" (the wonder of the age).Hamadhani was born and educated at
Hamedan , the ancient capital of the Medes and Persians known in antiquity asEcbatana , in what is now Iran. In 990 he went toJurjan , where he remained two years; then passing toNishapur , where he rivalled and surpassed the learnedKhwarizmi . After journeying throughKhorasan and Sijistan (modernSistan ), he finally settled inHerat under the protection of the vizir of Mahmud, theGhaznevid sultan. There he died at the age of forty. He was renowned for a remarkable memory and for fluency of speech, as well as for the purity of his language. He was one of the first to renew the use ofrhymed prose both in letters and maqamas.His letters were first published at
Constantinople (1881), and with commentary atBeirut (1890); his maqamas at Constantinople, and with commentary at Beirut (1889). A good idea of the latter may be obtained fromSilvestre de Sacy s edition of six of the maqamas with French translation and notes in his Chrestomathie arabe, vol. iii. (2nd ed., Paris, 1827). A specimen of the letters is translated into German in A. von Kremers "Culturgeschichte des Orients", ii. 470 sqq.See also
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Maqamat Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani
*Arabic literature References
* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/mhm/index.htm The Maqámát of Badí‘ al-Zamán al-Hamadhání] .
External links
* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/mhm/index.htm The Maqámát of Badí‘ al-Zamán al-Hamadhání] English translation at sacred-texts.com
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