Author: AL-HARIRI OF BASRA. Schultens, Albert.
Title: Haririi Eloquentiae arabicae principis tres priores consessus. E codice manuscripto Bibliothecae Lugduno-Batavae pro specimine emissi, ac notis illustrati ab Alberto Schultens. [Author's name in Arabic characters at head of title].
Description: Franequerae, Ex officina Wibii Bleck, bibliopolae, 1731. [12],181 pp. - [BOUND WITH:] Consessus Haririi, quartus, quintus & sextus, e codice manuscripto Latine conversi ac notis illustrati. Accedunt monumenta vetustiora Arabiae, curavit & editit Albertus Schultens. Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Johannem Luzac, 1740. [10],279 pp. - [BOUND WITH:] Index Arabicus. [28] pp. Lugduni Batavorum, Isaäc van der Mijn, 1740. - [BOUND WITH:] Monumenta vetustiora Arabiae sive specimina quaedam illustria antiquae memoriae et linguae. Ex manuscriptis codicibus Nuwirii, Mesoudii, Abulfedae, Hamasa, etc., etc., etc. Excerpsit, et edidit Albertus Schultens. Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Johannem Luzac, 1740. [8],71 pp. Four works (incl. index) bound together in contemp. vellum. Crown 8vo. - Spine browned, innerjoint strenghtened with paper strip. outer-joint nicely repaired.Scarce collection of the famous Maqâmât or Sessions of al-Harîrî, published by the Dutch Arabist Albertus Schultens (1686-1740). The translation of the first Consessus is by Jacobus Golius, as published in his edition of the Erpenius Grammar of 1656. In 1740, Schultens published the second part, as well as a selection of texts on pre-Islamic Arabia (Monumenta vetustiora Arabiae). # Schnurrer 230, 231 & 211. - - The most popular work of fiction in Arabic is, or was, the Maqamat of al-Hariri of Basra (1054 -1122), an Arab poet, scholar of the Arabic language and a high government official of the Seljuks. Though introduced early to Europe by the Dutch Orientalists Jacobus Golius and Albert Schultens, it has never been very popular in Western languages.

Keywords: Ethnography Arabia Literature Arabic Etnografie Arabië Letterkunde Arabisch ?Stelling Achter Toonbank / ?Stelling Achter Toonbank / VI