ISBN: 9781235912597

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...in historical traditions and anecdotes "of authors and poets, which he collected with uncommon avidity wherever he went. He was highly "distinguished by the Sultan Ya'kub Ibn Yi'isuf Al-mansur, who gave him a seat in his mejles (or "sitting-room), and appointed him to the charge of Kadi at Baeza, and then at Lorca. Ash-shakandi led "an exemplary life, and died, universally regretted, in A. H. six hundred and twenty-nine." (a. n. 1231-2.) This epistle of Ash-shakandi occurs twice in some manuscripts of Al-makkari which I have consulted. It is to be found, somewhat abridged, in the first book, containing the topographical description of Spain, and placed under the heads of the cities and towns which the author there describes; and it is also to be found entire in the seventh book, treating on the brilliant qualities, extent of genius, and literary accomplishments, of the Andalusians. (See fo. 225, verso, and following in 7334, fo. 69, and following in 9592, and 147, verso, in 9591.) In collating the various extracts introduced by the author in the first book, as making part of Ash-shakandi's risdleh, with the treatise in its entire state in the seventh, I found that all the historical and geographical information which the said production contains had been embodied by Al-makkari in that part of his work of which the present is a translation. This makes it unnecessary for me to translate the whole risdleh, which, --besides being very long, and being strewn with difficulties of no ordinary nature, --contains, as is the custom among Arabian writers, many poetical extracts and much uninteresting detail, which would annoy rather than instruct those who look for information respecting the history of Mohammedan Spain. I ought to add that Al-ma... History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain Maqqari, Ahmad Ibn- Muhammad Al-, Rarebooksclub.com<

ISBN: 1235912590

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