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MAPU, ABRAHAM (1808-1867)

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MAPU, See also:ABRAHAM (1808-1867) , See also:Hebrew novelist. His See also:works are chiefly See also:historical romances in Hebrew. His most famous books were The Love of See also:Zion and the Transgression of See also:Samaria. Besides their See also:intrinsic merits, these novels stand high among the works which produced the romantic See also:movement in See also:modern Hebrew literature. Mapu's plots were somewhat sensational, incident being more prominent than characterization. But underlying all was a See also:criticism of contemporary See also:life. His novels made a deep impression and became instantly popular. Mapu's Hebrew See also:style is See also:simple and classical. An See also:English See also:translation of the Love of Zion bears the See also:title Amnon, See also:Prince and See also:Peasant, by F. Jaffe (1887). Mapu's stories have been often translated into other See also:languages. See N.

Slouschz, The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1909), ch. v. (I. A.) MAQQAR!, or MAKKARI [See also:

Abu-l-`Abbas Ahmad See also:ibn Mahommed ul-Maggari] (c. 1591-1632), Arabian historian, was See also:born at See also:Tlemcen in See also:Algeria and studied at See also:Fez and See also:Marrakesh, where he remained engaged in See also:literary See also:work until he made the See also:pilgrimage to See also:Mecca in 1618. In the following See also:year he settled in See also:Cairo. In 162o he visited See also:Jerusalem and See also:Damascus, and during the next six years made the pilgrimage five times. In 1628 he was again in Damascus, where he gave a course of lectures on Bukhari's collection of Traditions, spoke much of the glories of Moslem See also:Spain, and received the impulse to write his work on this subject later. In the same year he returned to Cairo, where he spent a year in See also:writing his See also:history. He was just making preparations to See also:settle definitely in Damascus when he died in 1632. His See also:great work, The Breath of Perfume from the See also:Branch of See also:Green See also:Andalusia and Memorials of its See also:Vizier Lisdn ud-Din ibn ul-Khatib, consists of two parts. The first is a compilation from many authors on the description and history of Moslem Spain; it was published by See also:Wright, Krehl, See also:Dozy and Dugat as Analectes sur l'histoire et la litterature See also:des Arabes d'Espagne (See also:Leiden, 1855-1861), and in an abridged English translation by P. de Gayangos (See also:London, 184o-1843). The whole work has been published at Bulaq (1863) and Cairo (1885).

- For other works of Maqqari see C. Brockelmann's Gesch. der arabischen Litteratur (See also:

Berlin, 1902), U. 297. (G. W.

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