al-Maʿarrī
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, Abu ’l-ʿAlāʾ Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Sulaymān , famous Arabic poet and prose author of the late ʿAbbāsid period, was born in 363/973 in Maʿarrat al-Nuʿmān [q.v.], a town between Aleppo and Ḥimṣ in the northern part of Syria, where he also was to die in 449/1058. The Banū Sulaymān, his forefathers, belonged to the notable families of Maʿarra. As S̲h̲āfiʿī ʿulamāʾ , they held the office of ḳāḍī , which post was for the first time successfully claimed by a grandfather of Abu ’l-Alāʾ’s grandfather. In addition, some of the Banū Sulaymān are mentioned as rather good poets (further information in ʿImād al-Dīn al-Iṣfahānī, K̲h̲arīdat al-ḳaṣr wa-d̲j̲arīdat al-ʿaṣr , ii (part on Syria), ed. S̲h̲ukrī Fayṣal, Damascus 1959, where a genealogical table may be found in the editor’s Muḳaddima , based on al-Iṣfahānī, op. cit., ii, 49 and Ibn al-ʿAdīm, al-Inṣāf , 483-511).
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al-Maʿarrī
in Encyclopaedia of Islam New Edition Online (EI-2 English)Search for other papers by P. Smoor in
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(10,917 words)