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Ibn ʿAsākir family
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The
Ibn
ʿAsākir family (Banū ʿAsākir) was prominent in mediaeval Damascus. It produced several notable Shāfiʿī scholars who occupied prestigious scholarly and judicial positions in Damascus and Syria and shaped intellectual and religious life there between the fifth/eleventh and eighth/fourteenth centuries. Even though each male member of the family was known by the name of Ibn ʿAsākir (along with an honorific peculiar to each), the reference when used on its own in mediaeval literature refers inva…
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
al-Faḍl b. al-Ḥubāb
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Abū Khalīfa
al-Faḍl b. al-Ḥubāb b. Muḥammad b. Shuʿayb al-Jumaḥī (206–305/821–917) was a well-known
ḥadīth scholar and littérateur from Basra. He was renowned for his sense of humour and self-deprecation, and his company was often sought by governors and scholars, especially over meals. He loved poetry and is frequently cited in mediaeval books as having recited or transmitted many lines of poetry by pre-Islamic and early Islamic poets. He also developed and was known for speaking in rhymed prose
(sajaʿ). According to some sources, al-Faḍl b. al-Ḥubāb was blind, but he pro…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19