Nābigha al-Jaʽdī
Al-Nābigha al-Jaʽdī | |
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Born | c. 60/680 |
Died | 63/683×79/698-99 (est.) Unknown, possibly Isfahan or Khorasan |
Occupation | Poet |
Known for | Early Islamic poetry, Hijā' (satirical verse contests) |
Al-Nābigha al-Jaʽdī (النابغة الجعدي, d. c. 60/680 or some years later)[1] was an early Islamic poet.
Biography
He first appears in the historical record as part of the deputation by the
His date and place of death are unknown, with various guesses being made by scholars, ranging across 63/683×79/698-99, in Iṣfahān or Kurāsān.[5]
Work
Nābigha is noted for a series of hijā’ (satirical verse contests) with
Nābigha's work includes a heartfelt lament for the death of his son Muḥārib and younger brother Waḥwaḥ,[9] and a meditation on the frailty of human life in the face of death.[10]
On the conquest of Khorasan, Nābigha made the following verse: 'O men, do you not see how Persia has been ruined and its inhabitants humiliated? They have become slaves who pasture your sheet, as if their kingdom was a dream'.[11]
Editions
- Le poesie di an-Nābiġah al-Ǧaʽdī, ed. and trans. by Maria Nallino, Studi orientali pubblicati a cura della Scuola orientale, 2 (Rome: Bardi, 1953)
- Shiʽr al-Nābigha al-Jaʽdī, ed. by ʽAbd al-ʽAzīz Rabaḥ (Damascus: al-Maktab al-Islāmī, 1384/1964)
- Dīwān al-Nābigha al-Jaʽdī, ed. by Wāḍiḥ al-Ṣamad (Beirut: Dār Ṣādir, 1998)
Studies
- Maria Nallino, 'An-Nābiġah al-Ǧaʽdī e le sue poesie', Revista degli studi orientali, 14 (1933–34), 135-90, 380-432
References
- ^ Abū l-ʽlā’ al-Maʽarrī, The Epistle of Forgiveness or A Pardon to Enter the Garden, ed. and trans. by Geert Jan van Gelder and Gregor Schoeler, 2 vols (New York: New York University Press, 2013-14), II 263 n. 651.
- ^ Aram A. Shahin, 'Reflections of the Lives and Deaths of Two Umayyad Poets: Laylā al-Akhyaliyya and Tawba b. al-Ḥumayyir', in The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning: Studies Presented to Wadad Kadi, ed. by Maurice A. Pomerantz, Aram A. Shahin (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 398-443 (p. 416 n. 48), DOI: 10.1163/9789004307469_018.
- ^ Aram A. Shahin, 'Reflections of the Lives and Deaths of Two Umayyad Poets: Laylā al-Akhyaliyya and Tawba b. al-Ḥumayyir', in The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning: Studies Presented to Wadad Kadi, ed. by Maurice A. Pomerantz, Aram A. Shahin (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 398-443 (p. 417 n. 51), DOI: 10.1163/9789004307469_018.
- ^ Aram A. Shahin, 'Reflections of the Lives and Deaths of Two Umayyad Poets: Laylā al-Akhyaliyya and Tawba b. al-Ḥumayyir', in The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning: Studies Presented to Wadad Kadi, ed. by Maurice A. Pomerantz, Aram A. Shahin (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 398-443 (p. 416 n. 48), DOI: 10.1163/9789004307469_018.
- ^ Aram A. Shahin, 'Reflections of the Lives and Deaths of Two Umayyad Poets: Laylā al-Akhyaliyya and Tawba b. al-Ḥumayyir', in The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning: Studies Presented to Wadad Kadi, ed. by Maurice A. Pomerantz, Aram A. Shahin (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 398-443 (p. 416 n. 48), DOI: 10.1163/9789004307469_018.
- ^ Aram A. Shahin, 'Reflections of the Lives and Deaths of Two Umayyad Poets: Laylā al-Akhyaliyya and Tawba b. al-Ḥumayyir', in The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning: Studies Presented to Wadad Kadi, ed. by Maurice A. Pomerantz, Aram A. Shahin (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 398-443 (p. 416 n. 48), DOI: 10.1163/9789004307469_018.
- ^ Aram A. Shahin, 'Reflections of the Lives and Deaths of Two Umayyad Poets: Laylā al-Akhyaliyya and Tawba b. al-Ḥumayyir', in The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning: Studies Presented to Wadad Kadi, ed. by Maurice A. Pomerantz, Aram A. Shahin (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 398-443 (p. 417 n. 51), DOI: 10.1163/9789004307469_018.
- ^ Aram A. Shahin, 'Reflections of the Lives and Deaths of Two Umayyad Poets: Laylā al-Akhyaliyya and Tawba b. al-Ḥumayyir', in The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning: Studies Presented to Wadad Kadi, ed. by Maurice A. Pomerantz, Aram A. Shahin (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 398-443 (p. 416 n. 48), DOI: 10.1163/9789004307469_018.
- ^ "an-Nābiġah al-Ǧaʿdī e le sue poesie", su: Rivista degli Studi Orientali, XIV (1934), pp. 135-190, alle pp. 177-78 (Qaṣīda XII).
- ^ Le poesie di an-Nābigha al-Ǧaʿdī, Qaṣīda III, trad. di M. Nallino, pp. 39-40.
- ^ William F. McCants, Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012), p. 105.