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HAMADHANI , in full See also:ABU-L FApL AIIMAD See also:IBN UL-IJUSAIN UL-HAMADHANI (967–1007), Arabian writer, known as Badi' uz-Zaman (the wonder of the See also:age), was See also:born and educated at Hamadhan. In 990 he went to Jorjan, where he remained two years; then passing to See also:Nishapur, where he rivalled and surpassed the learned Khwarizmi. After journeying through See also:Khorasan and Sijistan, he finally settled in See also:Herat under the See also:protection of the vizir of Mahmfld, the Ghaznevid See also:sultan. There he died at the age of See also:forty. He was renowned for a remarkable memory and for fluency of speech, as well as for the purity of his See also:language. He was one of the first to renew the use of rhymed See also:prose both in letters and maqdmas (see See also:ARABIA: Literature, See also:section " Belles Lettres "). His letters were published at See also:Constantinople (1881), and with commentary at See also:Beirut (1890) ; his magamas at Constantinople (1881), and with commentary at Beirut (1889). A See also:good See also:idea of the latter may be obtained from S. de Sacy's edition of six of the magamas with See also:French See also:translation and notes in his Chrestomathie arabe, vol. iii. (2nd ed., See also:Paris, 1827). A specimen of the letters is translated into See also:German in A. von Kremer's Culturgeschichte See also:des Orients, ii. 47o sqq. (See also:Vienna, 1877). (G. W. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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