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Originality and realism were clearly not among the aims of their author, which has led some modern scholars to rate his work as inferior to that of the founder of the genre, al-Hamadhani (968–1008 CE). Yet this perception was not shared by Arabic-speaking audiences of the twelfth century onwards, amongst whom al-Hariri's Maqamat almost immediately became a classic, soon eclipsing earlier writings of the same genre and spawning emulations in Hebrew, Syriac and Persian. So considerable was their popularity that, according to an anecdote cited by Yaqut al-Rumi (c. 1179–1229), al-Hariri had authorized seven hundred copies of the text in his lifetime.
The Islamic world witnessed, in the twelfth to thirteenth centuries, an explosion of figural art. (...) The making of it is forbidden under every circumstance, because it implies a likeness to the creative activity of God
Most of the illustrations are simple and at first glance quite literal, and for this reason most scholars have assigned the manuscript to the early thirteenth century, or even to the late twelfth. A more sophisticated discussion by Rice of one group of illustrations led him to a date sometime in the 1240. (Grabar, The Illustrations of the Maqamat, p. 8.)
While at a wedding in Sinjar (Iraq), Abu Zayd tells the story of how he lost his enslaved concubine (jāriya). The plan had been to keep her in strict seclusion, but one day, under the influence of alcohol, he made the mistake of revealing her existence to a neighbor. Word got around; eventually, Abu Zayd was forced to sell the concubine to the governor.
Only one illustrated copy of the Maqamat (Oxford Marsh 458) was dedicated to a named individual, the Mamluk amir Nasir al-Din Muhammad, son of Husam al-Din Tarantay Silahdar, for whom it was completed in 1337.
The sultan who possibly commissioned the manuscript and who may be the one depicted on the dedicatory title page is An-Nasir Muhammad b. Qala'un, who was in power for the third time from 709 AH / 1309-10 AD to 741 AH / 1340-41 AD.
Most of the illustrations are simple and at first glance quite literal, and for this reason most scholars have assigned the manuscript to the early thirteenth century, or even to the late twelfth. A more sophisticated discussion by Rice of one group of illustrations led him to a date sometime in the 1240. (Grabar, The Illustrations of the Maqamat, p. 8.)
While at a wedding in Sinjar (Iraq), Abu Zayd tells the story of how he lost his enslaved concubine (jāriya). The plan had been to keep her in strict seclusion, but one day, under the influence of alcohol, he made the mistake of revealing her existence to a neighbor. Word got around; eventually, Abu Zayd was forced to sell the concubine to the governor.
Most of the illustrations are simple and at first glance quite literal, and for this reason most scholars have assigned the manuscript to the early thirteenth century, or even to the late twelfth. A more sophisticated discussion by Rice of one group of illustrations led him to a date sometime in the 1240. (Grabar, The Illustrations of the Maqamat, p. 8.)