Ibn Nubata (preacher)

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Abū Yaḥyā ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ḥudhakī al-Fāriqī, better known as Ibn Nubāta (d. 984/5), was an Islamic preacher (

emir of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla
.

Life

Ibn Nubata was born in

Renaissance Italy.[2] Ibn Nubata died in his home city in 984/5.[1]

Works

His sermons were written in rhyming prose and, according to the historian

Apart from his regular

Friday sermons, Ibn Nubata also composed sermons for special occasions, notably the campaigns of his patron, Sayf al-Dawla, against the Byzantine Empire. These 'sermons on the Holy War' (khuṭab jihādiyya) were among his most popular works, and are a historical source about the political events of his day.[1]

The 13th-century biographer Ibn Khallikan praised him as "a perfect master of all sciences connected with general literature", as well as a person of "divine grace" and "fine genius".[3]

His sermons were collected along with sermons of his son, Abu Tahir Muhammad, and his grandson, Abu'l-Faraj, in the 1220s. Various editions have survived, with the 1311 Beirut edition being the most famous.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Canard 1971, p. 900.
  2. ^ Humphreys 2010, pp. 537–538.
  3. ^ Ibn Khallikan 1843, p. 110.

Sources

  • OCLC 495469525
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  • Humphreys, Stephen (2010). "Syria". In .
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