Item #H23769 al-Mukhtar min kitab al-'Umdah / Selections from al-'Umdah, text in Arabic. al-Hasan Ibn Rashiq al-Qayrawani, d. 1064.
al-Mukhtar min kitab al-'Umdah / Selections from al-'Umdah, text in Arabic

al-Mukhtar min kitab al-'Umdah / Selections from al-'Umdah, text in Arabic

Cairo: Dar al-Kitab al-'Arabi, (1960). Paperback. 8vo, wraps, 145 pp. Very good, light wear, yellowing and soil to covers, pages quite tanned. In Arabic. Ibn Rashiq, literary theorist, poet, anthologist, was born in Masila in the region of Constantine, a city in present-day Algeria, to a family of Arab origin. Hasan al-Qayrawani al-Azdi al-Masili Ibn Rashiq displayed an early interest in Arabic literature, and following his primary education in Masila he was sent to al-Qayrawan in 1015/1016 to pursue his secondary studies. There he was able to study under some of the most eminent literary figures of eleventh-century Ifriqiya (present-day Tunisia), among them the grammarian Abu Abd Allah al-Qazzaz, and the poets Ibrahim al-Husri, Abu Muhammad al-Khushani, and Abu Muhammad Abd al-Karim al-Nahshali. Very Good. Item #H23769

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