Here are posts labelled "Arabic (language)" on The Guide
Just the Facts:
- Name: Gibran Khalil Gibran
- Known as: Kahlil Gibran
- Birth: January 6, 1883, Bsharri, Lebanon
- Death: April 10, 1931, New York City, New York, USA
- Language: English, Arabic
- Who he was: Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer; The Prophet; Jesus, The Son of Man; Broken Wings
- Included in lists (What's This?): GC
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Muhammad bin Suleyman
- Known as: Fuzuli
- Dates: c. 1494-1556
- Place: Karbala, Iraq
- Language: Azerbaijani, Persian, and Arabic
- Who he was: Turkmen (Azerbaijani) poet and philosopher; Layla and Mejnun
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| sculpture by Patrick Morelli |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Abū Zayd 'Abd ar-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Khaldun al-Hadram
- Known as: Ibn Khaldun
- Birth: May 27, 1332, Tunis, Tunisia
- Death: March 19, 1406, Cairo, Egypt
- Language: Arabic
- Who he was: North African Muslim historian; Muqaddimah (part I of a history of the world, Kitāb al-'Ibar)
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Averroes, detail of Raphael's
fresco The School of Athens |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Ibn Rushd
- Known as: Averroes
- Birth: April 14, 1126, Córdoba, Spain
- Death: December 10, 1198, Marrakesh, Morocco
- Language: Arabic
- Who he was: Andalusian polymath; Tahafut al-tahafut (The Incoherence of the Incoherence); Kitab fasl al-maqal (The Harmony of Religion and Philosophy)
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Moshe ben Maimon
- Known as: Maimonides
- Birth: Unknown Date, 1135, Córdoba, Spain
- Death: December 13, 1204, Fustat, Egypt
- Language: Judeo-Arabic
- Who he was: medieval Jewish philosopher; The Guide for the Perplexed; "Oath of Maimonides"
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illustration by Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti from a
1237 manuscript of the 7th Maqāma of Al-Hariri |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Abū Muhammad al-Qāsim ibn Alī ibn Muhammad ibn Uthmān al-Harīrī
- Known as: Al-Hariri of Basra
- Birth: Unknown Date, 1054, Basra, Iraq
- Death: September 10, 1122, Basra, Iraq
- Language: Arabic
- Who he was: Arab poet and scholar; Maqamat al-Hariri (The Assemblies of al-Hariri)
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Scheherazade and the Sultan
by Ferdinand Keller |
Just the Facts:
- Name: One Thousand and One Nights
- Dates: 12th century
- Place: India? The Middle East?
- Language: Arabic, then French, then English; but perhaps many other languages before Arabic
- What it is: story collection that may have started in India, then traveled through Persia into Arabic-speaking lands. It has taken many forms, throughout centuries, but this date is as good as any. The frame story is of the woman Scheherazade using "cliff-hangers" to keep the Sultan at bay for just one more night...
- Included in lists (What's This?): LRP; HC; Bloom; GC
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm
- Known as: Ibn Hazm
- Birth: November 7, 994, Córdoba, Caliphate of Córdoba (Spain)
- Death: August 15, 1064, Montíjar, near Huelva, Taifa of Seville (Spain)
- Language: Arabic
- Who he was: Andalusian Muslim poet and philosopher who wrote Tawq al-Hamama (The Ring of the Dove)
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Imru' al-Qais, an important poet whose work
was anthologized by Hammad Ar-Rawiya |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Hammad Ar-Rawiya
- Date: 694 or 714; died Unknown Date
- Place: Kufa, Iraq
- Languages: Persian (?), Arabic
- Who he was: Persian anthologist of pre-Islamic Arabic poetry, he is credited with preserving the work of the "seven renowned ones" who wrote the poems in the Al-Mu'allaqat (Precious Gems, also called The Seven Odes)
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Just the Facts:
- Name: John of Damascus
- Known as: Saint John Damascene
- Birth: Unknown Date, 676, Damascus, Syria
- Death: December 4, 749, Mar Saba Monastery, West Bank
- Languages: Arabic (?), Aramaic (?), Greek (?)
- Who he was: Syrian monk and theologian who wrote On Holy Images; Three Sermons on the Assumption
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| Muhammad receives his first revelation from the angel Gabriel |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Muhammad
- Birth: Unknown Date, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
- Death: June 8, 632, Medina, Saudi Arabia
- Language: Arabic
- Who he was: Arab messenger and prophet of Islam; received The Quran
- Included in lists (What's This?): HC, LRP; Bloom
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Naguib Mahfouz
- Birth: December 11, 1911, Cairo, Egypt
- Death: August 30, 2006, Agouza, Giza, Egypt
- Language: Arabic
- Who he was: Egyptian writer of 34 novels (including Midaq Alley and the "Cairo Trilogy"), over 350 short stories, and more; winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1988)
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
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