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Adab Colloquium: Who Was a Good Poet in Sixteenth Century Damascus?
February 24 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
With ALQ contributor Haci Osman Gündüz (Ozzy)!
Biographical dictionaries often also served as anthologies with—at times—detailed analyses of poetry and literary aesthetics. One such work is Ibn Ayyūb al-Anṣārī’s (d. 1003/1595) Kitāb al-rawḍ al- ʿāṭir which is an indispensable resource on major Damascene figures of the sixteenth century. This talk provides a preliminary study of the dictionary with focus on what Ibn Ayyūb al-Anṣārī and his contemporaries deemed good poetry was, and what skills a poet needed to be successful.