Al-Busiri

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The tomb of al-Busiri in Alexandria, Egypt
A verse from al-Busiri's poem al-Burda on the wall of his shrine in Alexandria

Al-Būṣīrī (

Arabic language, as much as his other ode named Al-Hamziyya
.

Biography

He was born in Dalāṣ,[4] a small town in Beni Suef Governorate in Egypt (despite the similar name, this town is not to be confused with Dellys, in Algeria), and wrote under the patronage of Ibn Hinna, the vizier. His father was from Abusir, hence his nisba Al-Būṣīrī. Sometimes he also used his nisbe Dalāṣīrī as his mother belonged to the town of Dalāṣ.[1]

In his Qaṣīda al-Burda, he claims that Muhammad cured him of

Bombay, 1893), with French translation by René Basset (Paris, 1894), with German translation by C. A. Ralfs (Vienna, 1860), and in other languages elsewhere.[5]

References

  1. ^ . Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  2. ^ His family came from southern Morocco before settling in Egypt. "الإمام شرف الدين محمد بن سعيد بن حماد الصنهاجي البوصيري". Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  3. ^ "al-Busiri | Arabian poet". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2016-07-21.
  4. ^ Ibn Shākir al-Kutubī, Muḥammad (1974). Fawāt al-wafāyāt (1st ed.). Beirut: Dar Ṣādir. p. 362 (vol. 4). Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  5. ^  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Būṣīrī". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 873.

Further reading

  • For a long list of commentaries, etc., cf. C. Brockelmann's Gesch. der Arab. Litteratur (Weimar, 1898), vol. i. pp. 264–267
  • La Burda du désert, T. Ikbal, F. Tidjani, M. Vâlsan, Science sacrée, 2015