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    Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (Arabic: أبو العلاء المعري, full name أبو العلاء أحمد بن عبد الله بن سليمان التنوخي المعري Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn...
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    Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Iṣfahānī (Arabic: أبو الفرج الأصفهاني), also known as Abul-Faraj, (full form: Abū al-Faraj ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad...
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  • Diwan des Abu Nowas. Greifswald. pp. 21 ff. Baghdādī (al-), Abū al-‘Alā’ Sa‘d al-Ḥasan al-Rub’a (1994). al-Tāzī Sa’ūd, ‘Abd al-Wāhb (ed.). Kitāb al-Fuṣūṣ...
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    Abū Nuwās al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī al-Ḥakamī (variant: Al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī 'Abd al-Awal al-Ṣabāḥ, Abū 'Alī (أَبُو عَلِي اَلْحَسَنْ بْنْ هَانِئْ بْنْ عَبْدِ اَلْأَوَّلْ...
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    Risālat al-Ghufrān (Arabic: رسالة الغفران), meaning The Epistle of Forgiveness, is a satirical work of Arabic poetry written by Abu al-ʿAlaʾ al-Maʿarri around...
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    Al-Harith ibn Abi’l-ʿAlaʾ Saʿid ibn Hamdan al-Taghlibi (932–968), better known by his pen name Abu Firas al-Hamdani (Arabic: أبو فراس الحمداني), was an...
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    received a PhD for his thesis on the sceptic poet and philosopher Abu al-ʿAlaʾ al-Maʿarri. Taha Hussein left for Montpellier, enrolled in its university...
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  • Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maqqarī al-Tilmisānī (or al-Maḳḳarī) (أحمد المقري التلمساني), (1577-1632) was an Algerian scholar, biographer and historian who is...
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    ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī Ḥazm al-Qarashī (Arabic: علاء الدين أبو الحسن عليّ بن أبي حزم القرشي ), known as Ibn al-Nafīs (Arabic: ابن النفيس)...
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    (Arabic: ابن عربي, ALA-LC: Ibn ʻArabī‎; full name: أبو عبد الله محـمـد بن عربي الطائي الحاتمي, Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʻArabī al-Ṭāʼī al-Ḥātimī; 1165–1240)...
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    Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr al-Kinani al-Basri (Arabic: أبو عثمان عمرو بن بحر الكناني البصري, romanized: Abū ʿUthman ʿAmr ibn Baḥr al-Kinānī al-Baṣrī; c. 776–868/869)...
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  • Abū Bakr az-Zubaydī (أبو بكر الزبيدي), also known as Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Madḥīj al-Faqīh and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan az-Zubaydī al-Ishbīlī...
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    both Abu Hanifah and Malik.[citation needed] His work thus became known as "al-madhhab al-qadim li-l-imam al-shafi'i", or the "old school of al-Shafi'i"...
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  • al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (112 poems; d. 1057) Abū ʿAmr al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī (74 poems and ten prose riddles; fl. second half of the eleventh century) Abū ʿAlī...
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  • Al-Kisā’ī (الكسائي) Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn Ḥamzah ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn ‘Uthman (أبو الحسن على بن حمزة بن عبد الله بن عثمان), called Bahman ibn Fīrūz (بهمن...
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  • Risala (redirect from Al Risala)
    Risalat al-Ghufran or The Epistle of Forgiveness, a satirical work of Arabic poetry written by Abu al-ʿAlaʾ al-Maʿarri around 1033 Al-Risala al-Qushayriyya...
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  • (1854–1918). Abū al-'Alā'. Also known as Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (973–1058), he was a blind Arab philosopher and writer. The Quatrains of Abu'l-Ala (1903)....
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  • ·       “Al-Manamam” (Original title: almunamati) contains his maqamat and messages, and in it he followed the path of Abu Al-Ala Al-Ma’arri in forgiveness...
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    the Paradise described by the Qur'an is not actually desirable Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (973–1057): Arab philosopher, poet, and writer who was known for...
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  • Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muslim ibn Qutayba al-Dīnawarī al-Marwazī better known simply as Ibn Qutaybah (Arabic: ابن قتيبة, romanized: Ibn Qutaybah;...
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    studied Islamic traditions and philology under Abu 'Amr ibn al-'Ala' with Aiyūb al-Sakhtiyāni, ‘Āṣm al-Aḥwal, al-‘Awwām b. Ḥawshab, etc. His teacher Ayyub...
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    that Risālat al-Ghufrān ("The Epistle of Forgiveness"), a satirical work mixing Arabic poetry and prose written by Abu al-ʿAlaʾ al-Maʿarri around 1033...
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  • as-Sann ‘alā madhahib al-fiqha (كتاب السنن على مذاهب الفقهآء) The Ordinances According to the Legal Systems of the Jurists. Ḥajar (Ibn), Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad...
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  • Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sarī al-Zajjāj (Arabic: أبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن محمد بن السري الزجاج) was a grammarian of Basrah, a scholar of philology...
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  • Abu Musa al-Jazuli (Arabic: أبو موسى الجزولي; full name: Īsā ibn ‘Abd al-Azīz ibn Yalalbakht ibn Īsā ibn Yūmārīlī al-Barbarī al-Marākeshī al-Yazadaktnī...
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  • soul as a disciple of Abū Zayd Saʽid ibn Aws al-Anṣārī (d.830) and Abū Amr ibn al-ʽAlā (d.770), over the exegetes, traditionists and fuqaha (jurists). Ibn...
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  • [citation needed] A protégé of Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi and Abu 'Amr ibn al-'Ala', he was a contemporary and rival of Abū ʿUbaidah and Sibawayhi also...
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  • Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b Mūsā an-Nawbakhtī (الحسن بن موسى النوبختي; born late 9th century and died between 912 and 922) was a Persian and leading Shī'ī...
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  • in South America, Riwaq al-Ma'arri, was founded in 1900 by Sa'id Abu Hamza, who was also settled in São Paulo. Al-Rabita Al-Adabia would be founded in...
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  • World Centre for Research and Publishing. ISBN 978-0-86199-011-5. Popp, Richard A. (2000). Al-Funun: the Making of an Arab-American Literary Journal....
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