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Michael, what are you working on at the moment?
I’ve recently finished a book (Studies in the Medieval Hebrew Tradition of the Ḥarīrīan and Ḥarizian Maqama) on what, for lack of a better word, we can call the “classical” maqama. A maqama is a rhymed-prose narrative into which poems are inserted. The sorts of maqamas on which I am working are called picaresque maqamas, as they involve the adventures of a narrator and a hero. Picaresque maqamas went into the makeup of... Read More
Has tags: Arabic, Genizah Fragments, literature, mamluk, poetry, Q&A, theatre
Hi Mohamed, which manuscript are you working on today?
I’m working on T-S Ar.42.8. It’s a fragment in Arabic script by an unidentified author and scribe.
Can you tell me about it?
It’s a fragment of a work on poetics, covering the subject of prosody in Classical Arabic poetry and mentioning famous Arabic poetic scholars, such as al-Ḵalīl and al-Aḵṭal. The recto... Read More
Has tags: Arabic, Genizah Fragments, literature, poetry, Q&A
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