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Kān Wa-Kān
(272 words)
, the name of one of the seven post-classical genres of poetry (
fann , pl.
funūn ), the others being the
silsila , the
dūbayt or
rubāʿī , the
muwas̲h̲s̲h̲aḥ , the
ḳūmā , the
mawāliyā and the
zad̲j̲al [
qq.v.]. The genre was devised by the Bag̲h̲dādī poets and its name derives from the formula used by storytellers to open their narratives: “there was and there was”,
i.e., “once upon a time”; originally, in fact, the
kān wa-kān was just a rhyming story and it was only later that the term was applied to various subjects, particularly those of a moral or…
Ibn al-D̲j̲azarī
(790 words)
, S̲h̲ams al-Dīn abu ’l-Ḵh̲ayr muḥ. b. Muḥ. b. Muḥ. b. Muḥ. b. ʿAlī b. Yūsuf al-D̲j̲azarī ,
faḳīh , “reader” and
ḳāḍī , born in Damascus on 25 Ramaḍān 751/26 November 1350. After completing the traditional studies in his native town, with particular attention to
ḥadīt̲h̲ and Ḳurʾānic “readings”, he made the pilgrimage to Mecca in 768/1367 and then went to Cairo, where he continued the study of the
ḳirāʾāt . Returning to Damascus, he devoted himself to
ḥadīt̲h̲ and
fiḳh , attending the classes of the pupils of al-Dimyāṭī, al-Abarḳūhī and al-Asnawī. He the…