Week 1 February 22 al-Silafī; al-Qifṭī
Set Reading
Al-Silafī
Bonebakker, S.A., and Fishbein, M. A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature. Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2012, 12–19.
Al-Qifṭī
Bonebakker, S.A., and Fishbein M. A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature. Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2012, 20–39.
Al-Qifṭī, ʿAlī b. Yūsuf. Inbāh Al-Ruwā ʿalā Anbāh Al-Nuḥā. Edited by Muḥammad A. Ibrāhīm. Cairo: Dār al-Fikr al-ʿArabī, 1986, vl.1, 359–362.
Further
Al-Silafī
Al-Bārūdī, ʿA.ʿU. Muqaddima of Muʿjam al-safar, by al-Silafī. Edited by ʿAbdallah ʿU al-Bārūdī. Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993, 3–4.
Gilliot, Cl. EI2, s.v. “al-Silafī.”
Zaman, S.M. “Silafī’s Biography: His Birth and Family Background.” Islamic Studies 25, no. 1 (1986): 1–10.
———. “Sources for Silafī’s Biography.” Islamic Studies 24, no. 4 (1985): 493–502.
Al-Qifṭī
Al-Ṣafadī, Khalīl b. Aybak. Al-Wāfī bi-l-wafayāt. Edited by Aḥmad al-Arnāʾūṭ and Turkī Muṣṭafā. Beirut: Dār Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʿArabī, 2000, vl.22, 210.
Al-Kutubī, Muḥammad b. Shākir. Fawāt al-wafayāt wa-l-dhayl ʿalayhā. Edited by Iḥsān ʿAbbās. Beirut: Dār Ṣādir, 1974, vl.3, 117–118.
Robinson, Chase F. Islamic Historiography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Week 3 March 8 al-Dhahabī and al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī
*Quiz
Set Reading
*Bonebakker, S.A., and Fishbein, M. A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature. Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2012, 67–76.
Al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī. Tārīkh Madīnat al-Salām. Edited by Bashshār ʿAwwār Maʿrūf. Beirut: Dār al-Gharb al-Islāmī, 2001, vl.4, 284–295.
Further
Ben Cheneb, M. and Somogyi, J. EI2, s.v. “al-Dhahabī.”
Bori, C. EI3, s.v. “al-Dhahabī.”
Sellheim, R., J. EI2, s.v. “al-K̲h̲aṭīb al-Bag̲h̲dādī.”
Cooperson, M. Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of Al-Maʿmūn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 1-23.
Week 4 March 15 al-Muʿāfā
*Quiz
Set Reading
*Bonebakker, S.A., and Fishbein, M. A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature. Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2012, 40–66.
Further
Chejne, A.G. “The Boon-Companion in Early ’Abbāsid Times.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 85, no. 3 (1965): 327–335.
Ibn Nadim. Al-Fihrist. Edited by Riḍā Tajaddud. Tehran: Dār al-Masīra, 1988, 292–293.
Al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī. Tārīkh Madīnat al-Salām. Edited by Bashshār ʿAwwār Maʿrūf. Beirut: Dār al-Gharb al-Islāmī, 2001, vl.15, 308.
Week 5 March 22 al-Ṣābī and al-Bakrī
*Quiz
Set Reading
*Bonebakker, S.A., and Fishbein, M. A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature. Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2012, 94–113 (al-Ṣābī); 117–126 (al-Bakrī)
Further
Lévi-Provençal, E., EI2, s.v. “Abū ʿUbayd al-Bakrī.”
Sourdel D. EI2, s.v. “Hilāl b. al-Muḥassin b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṣābiʾ.”
van Berkel, Maaike, et al.. Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court: Formal and Informal Politics in the Caliphate of al-Muqtadir (295–320/908–32). Leiden: Brill, 2013.
Kraemer, J.L. Humanism in the Renaissance of Islam: The Cultural Revival During the Buyid Age. Leiden: Brill, 1986.
Mottahedeh, R. Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society. London: Tauris, 2001.
W6, 8, 9 (March 29, April 12 and April 19) al-Iṣfahānī
*Quiz
Set Reading
Yāqūt. Muʿjam al-udabāʾ, ed. Aḥmad F. Rifāʿī (Cairo: Maṭbūʿāt al-Maʾmūn, 1922), vl.13, 94–130.
*Abū al-Faraj ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn al-Iṣfahānī, Kitāb Al-Aghānī, ed. Yūsuf al-Baqāʿī and Gharīd al-Shaykh (Beirut: Muʾassasat al-Aʿlamī, 2000), vol.4, 210–234 (quiz on April 12: 210–215).
Further
Kilpatrick, H. Making the Great Book of Songs: Compilations and the Author’s Craft in Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī’s Kitāb al-Aghānī. London: Routledge, 2003.
Günther, G. EI3, s.v. “Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī.”
W11–16 Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ
Set Reading
About Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (W11)
Ibn Nadim. Al-Fihrist. Edited by Riḍā Tajaddud. Tehran: Dār al-Masīra, 1988, 129–155.
Ibn al-Qifṭī. Ikhbār Al-ʿulamāʾ Bi-Akhbār Al-Ḥukamāʾ. Edited by Ibrāhīm Shams al-Dīn. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2005, 170.
Al-Ziriklī, Khayr al-Dīn. Al-Aʿlām. Beirut: Dār al-ʿIlm li-l-Malāyīn, 2002, vl.4, 140.
Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ’s Kalīla wa-Dimna (W12-16)
W12 (quiz)
*Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ. Āthār Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 1989, 3–4, 43–45, 50–54.
Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ’s Kalīla wa-Dimna and Risāla (W13-16)
Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ. Āthār Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 7–23, 26–42, 71–85, 179–199, 309–323.
See also:
Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ. Āthār Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 1989, 71–242.
Shaked, S. and Safa, Z. Encyclopaedia Iranica, s.v. ‘Andarz.’
Crone, P. Medieval Islamic Political Thought. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005, 148–164.
Latham, J. D. “Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ and Early ʿAbbasid Prose.” Chapter. Dans Abbasid Belles Lettres. Sous la direction de Julia Ashtiany, T. M. Johnstone, J. D. Latham and R. B. Serjeant, 48–77. The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521240161.005.
Marsham, Andrew. Rituals of Islamic Monarchy : Accession and Succession in the First Muslim Empire. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013, 183–198.
J. Derek Latham, “EBN AL-MOQAFFAʿ, ABŪ MOḤAMMAD ʿABD-ALLĀH RŌZBEH,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, VIII/1, pp. 39-43, available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ebn-al-moqaffa (accessed on 30 December 2012).
Riedel, Dagmar, “KALILA WA DEMNA i. Redactions and circulation,” ,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. XV, Fasc. 4, pp. 386-395, available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/kalila-demna-i
Gabrieli, F., “Ibn al-Muḳaffaʿ”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs. Consulted online on 09 December 2019 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_3304>
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