al-Ghuzūlī

by Cooperson, Michael

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ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī b. ʿAbdallāh al-Bahāʾī al-Ghuzūlī (d. 815/1411–2) was a literary figure of the Mamlūk period. Born possibly in the 770s/1370s, he was a mamlūk turkī, that is, a slave brought from Central Asia or some indeterminate region of Europe, “afflicted with a non-Arab manner of expression and a foreign accent,” as he describes himself ( Maṭāliʿ , Cairo 2000, 642). The nisba al-Bahāʾī suggests that he was bought and manumitted by a certain Bahāʾ al-Dīn, perhaps the Damascene poet and ḥa…

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ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī b. ʿAbdallāh al-Bahāʾī al-Ghuzūlī (d. 815/1411–2) was a literary figure of the Mamlūk period. Born possibly in the 770s/1370s, he was a mamlūk turkī, that is, a slave brought from Central Asia or some indeterminate region of Europe, “afflicted with a non-Arab manner of expression and a foreign accent,” as he describes himself ( Maṭāliʿ , Cairo 2000, 642). The nisba al-Bahāʾī suggests that he was bought and manumitted by a certain Bahāʾ al-Dīn, perhaps the Damascene poet and ḥadīth

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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eng Islam

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Cooperson, Michael

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