The Treatment of Coeval Persian Poetry in Arabic Anthologies of the Eleventh/Seventeenth Century

In this short article, I draw attention to the discussion of poets from Iran (al-ʿAjam) in two Arabic biographical anthologies of the eleventh/seventeenth century: the Sulāfat al-ʿaṣr of Ibn Maʿṣūm (d. 1120/1709) and the Nafḥat al-rayḥāna of Muḥammad Amīn al-Muḥibbī (d. 1111/1699). The latter text n...

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Main Author: Theodore S. Beers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Columbia University Libraries 2020-10-01
Series:Al-'Usur al-Wusta
Online Access:https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/alusur/article/view/8416