In Pursuit of Shadows: Al-Hariri’s Maqāmāt

Focusing on the well-known 1237 Maqāmāt copied and illustrated by Yahya b. Mahmud. b. Yahya. b. Abi al-Hasan b. Kurriha al-Wasiti (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Ms. Arabe 5847), this essay reexamines the question of the interaction between al-Hariri’s text and al-Wasiti’s interpretation o...

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Main Author: Roxburgh, David J. 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2014
In: Muqarnas
Year: 2014, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 171-212
Further subjects:B Maqāmāt al-Hariri al-Wasiti Baghdad Arabic manuscripts painting literature text image shadow play Abbasid
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)