ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Kātib

by al-Qāḍī, Wadād

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Abū Yaḥyā (or Abū Ghālib) ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Yaḥyā b. Saʿd (or Saʿīd) al-Kātib al-ʿĀmirī (c. 69–132/c. 688–750) was one of the earliest epistolographers in Arabic, to whom tradition attributed the foundation of Arabic literary prose. A third-generation Muslim of non-Arab, probably Persian, extraction, he was probably born in al-Anbār. He seems to have been educated in Kufa, to have worked as a teacher and an itinerant tutor, and then to have been employed as a secretary (kātib) in the central

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Abū Yaḥyā (or Abū Ghālib) ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Yaḥyā b. Saʿd (or Saʿīd) al-Kātib al-ʿĀmirī (c. 69–132/c. 688–750) was one of the earliest epistolographers in Arabic, to whom tradition attributed the foundation of Arabic literary prose. A third-generation Muslim of non-Arab, probably Persian, extraction, he was probably born in al-Anbār. He seems to have been educated in Kufa, to have worked as a teacher and an itinerant tutor, and then to have been employed as a secretary (kātib) in the central

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei3240

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eng Islam

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al-Qāḍī, Wadād

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