Ibn al-Fāriḍ

by Homerin, Th. Emil

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ʿUmar b. ʿAlī b. al-Murshid b. ʿAlī Ibn al-Fāriḍ al-Saʿdī (576-632/1181-1235) is the most celebrated Ṣūfī Arab poet in the history of Islam. He was born in Cairo on 4 Dhū l-Qaʿda 576/23 March 1181 after his father had moved there from Hama, probably to serve in the judiciary, where he was a women’s advocate in legal proceedings involving their share of inheritance (fāriḍ) , hence ʿUmar’s eventual title of Ibn al-Fāriḍ. ʿUmar’s father oversaw his son’s education

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ʿUmar b. ʿAlī b. al-Murshid b. ʿAlī Ibn al-Fāriḍ al-Saʿdī (576-632/1181-1235) is the most celebrated Ṣūfī Arab poet in the history of Islam. He was born in Cairo on 4 Dhū l-Qaʿda 576/23 March 1181 after his father had moved there from Hama, probably to serve in the judiciary, where he was a women’s advocate in legal proceedings involving their share of inheritance (fāriḍ) , hence ʿUmar’s eventual title of Ibn al-Fāriḍ. ʿUmar’s father oversaw his son’s education

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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