Muslim ibn al-Walid
Abu al-Walīd Muslim ibn al-Walīd al-Anṣārī (
panegyrics.[1]
As worded by the Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, he was born and brought up in
Barmakid debacle of 187 H/794 AD.[3]
He gained favour by Al Fadl bin Sahl, a wazeer in the reign of the seventh Abbasid caliph
al-Maʾmūn and was appointed as a postmaster in Jurjān (Gorgan in present-day Iran) by al-Maʾmūn and remained and later in Isfahan. He withdrew from poetry after Al Fadl was murdered and led a lonely life until his death.[5]
He is buried in Gorgan.
Edition and translation
- M. J. de Goeje's edition (1875)
- The Diwan of Muslim ibn al-Walid, called Sariʻ al Gawani, translated and commented on by Arthur Wormhoudt. William Penn College. 1981.
Notes
- Poetsgate.com: ديوان صريع الغواني (in Arabic)
- Abū Nuwās; still they are more frequently found in their work than in the poems of the ancients."[4]
References
- ^ a b Kilpatrick, Hilary (2003). Making the Great Book of Songs: Compilation and the Author's Craft in Abû l-Faraj al-Isbahânî's Kitâb al-aghânî. Routledge. p. 337.
- ^ Goldziher, Ignác; Somogyi, József (1959). A Short History of Arabic Literature. p. 57.
- ^ a b Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature. Vol. 2. 1998. p. 557.
- ^ Bonebakker, S. A. (1990). "Ibn al-Muʿtazz and Kitāb al-Badīʿ". Abbasid Belles Lettres. p. 396.
- ^ Brockelmann, Carl (2017). History of the Arabic Written Tradition: Supplement Volume 1. p. 118.
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