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Bābā Ṭāhir
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Bābā Ṭāhir, a Persian poet and spiritual master of the 5th/11th century, known as ‘ʿUryān’ (the Naked). The majority of his compositions are in the form of
du-baytīs (a popular and more simplified version of the standard quatrains), some of which show characteristic elements of the Lurī dialect. A collection of Sufi aphorisms in Arabic has also been attributed to him.There is almost no information in the early sources about when he was born or died, nor about his education, livelihood or Sufi affiliation. As a consequence, the translator Edward Heron-All…
Source:
Encyclopaedia Islamica
Date:
2021-06-17
Badīʿ in Persian Language and Literature
(2,315 words)
Badīʿ in Persian Language and Literature. Al-Rādūyānī’s
Tarjumān al-balāgha, composed in the 5th/11th century, is the earliest Persian work on
ʿilm
al-badīʿ (‘figures of speech’, the art of arranging words of a discourse with elegance and precision, and expressing the ideas in an aesthetically pleasing manner),
balāgha (eloquence) and
ʿilm al-bayān (a branch of rhetoric, dealing with metaphorical language). The book is based on the Arabic model of rhetoric and eloquence. The author himself admits to this borrowing (p. 3) as is evident in the ti…
Source:
Encyclopaedia Islamica
Date:
2021-06-17
