Al-Hariri of Basra
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Al-Hariri of Basra
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Al-Hariri of Basra was a poet belonging to the Beni Harram tribe of Bedouin Arabs, who lived and died in the city of Basra, modern Iraq. He was a scholar of the Arabic language and a dignitary of the Seljuk Empire, which ruled Iraq during his lifetime, from 1055 to 1135. He is known for his Maqamat al-Hariri, a collection of some 50 stories written in the Maqama style, a mix of verse and literary prose. For more than eight centuries, Al-Hariri's best known work, his Maqamat has been regarded as
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Arab poet and scholar (1054–1122)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Hariri_of_Basra
date created:
2008-03-06T02:53:33Z
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2024-09-08T11:02:26Z
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