Ibn Nubata (preacher)
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
Works
His sermons were written in rhyming prose and, according to the historian
Qur'an".[1]
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
- ^ a b c d e Canard 1971, p. 900.
- ^ Humphreys 2010, pp. 537–538.
- ^ Ibn Khallikan 1843, p. 110.
Sources
- OCLC 495469525.
- Humphreys, Stephen (2010). "Syria". In ISBN 978-0-521-83823-8.
- OCLC 832287342.