Index

al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿUbayd Allāh (or ʿAbd Allāh) ibn Jaʿfar ibn Abī Jaʿfar al-Manṣūr, §21.2, §81.4

Abbasids (caliphate), xiv–xv, xxvi, §4.6, §61.1, n234

ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās, §87.7

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī l-Shīṣ, §183

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Naysabūrī (transmitter), §106.1

ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Saʿd, Abū Muḥammad, §33, §40.3, §68, §95.1, §107

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm al-Mismaʿī al-Qaysī (transmitter), §80.1

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Jarīr, §35

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿd ibn Abī Sarḥ, §164, n451

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Tāhir, Abū l-ʿAbbās, xxii, §64.1, §64.3, §99.1–2, §100.1, §101.1, §101.4, §104–§106.1, §160

ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām, §71.6

ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Walīd, §78.5, §78.7

ʿAbd al-Madān (tribe), §23.5

ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās, §52.6

ʿAbd Manāf, §121

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, Abū Bakr (transmitter), §91.1, §102

ʿAbd al-Ṣamad. See Ibn al-Muʿadhdhal

ʿAbīd ibn al-Abraṣ al-Asadī, §78.8, n266

Abrashahr, §100.1

abridgment. See ode

Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Alūsī (transmitter), §36.1

Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Alūsī (transmitter), §168

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh, “the Visitor” (transmitter), §76

Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Umawī (transmitter), §136, §145, §151

Abū Aḥmad. See Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn Ḥammād

Abū Aḥmad Yaḥyā. See Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī l-Munajjim

Abū ʿAlī l-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Fahm al-Baghdādī, §54, §102

Abū l-ʿAmaythal, §99.2, §106.1–2, n362

Abū ʿAmr ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, Zabbān (or Zayyān, or al-ʿUryān) ibn ʿAmmār, §71.6

Abū l-ʿAnbas Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Ṣaymarī, §127.1–2

Abū l-ʿAshāʾir al-Azdī (transmitter), §118

Abū l-ʿAtāhiyah, §16, §22.4

Abū l-ʿAynāʾ Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Khallād al-Hāshimī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh, §50.1, §50.3, §91.3, §99.1

Abū Ayyūb ibn Ukht Abī l-Wazīr, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Shujāʿ, §91.5

Abū Bakr ibn al-Khurāsānī (transmitter), §72.1

Abū Bakr ibn Kilāb (tribe), §71.2

Abū Bakr al-Qanṭarī (transmitter), §81.1

Abū l-Baydāʾ al-Riyāḥī (transmitter), §89.7

Abū Dhakwān al-Qāsim ibn Ismāʿīl, §24.15, §55.1–2, §86.6, §89.4, §125, §172

Abū Dulaf al-Qāsim ibn ʿĪsā ibn Idrīs al-ʿIjlī, §69.1, §69.3–4, §104

Abū l-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Abī Ṭāhir. See Ibn Abī Ṭāhir

Abū l-Faraj. See al-Iṣbahānī

Abū l-Ghamr al-Anṣārī (transmitter), §163

Abū l-Ghawth Yaḥyā ibn Abī ʿUbādah al-Buḥturī, §177

Abū Ḥanash al-Fazārī, §25.2

Abū Ḥanash Khudayr ibn Qays al-Hilālī l-Numayrī, §92.5

Abū l-Ḥasan al-Anṣārī (transmitter), §42.1, §83

Abū l-Ḥasan al-Kātib (transmitter), §39

Abū Ḥātim. See al-Sijistānī

Abū Hiffān ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Mihzamī l-ʿAbdī, §126

Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Jurjānī (transmitter), §42.2

Abū Isḥāq al-Ḥarrī (transmitter), §32

Abū l-Juwayriyyah ʿĪsā ibn Aws al-ʿAbdī, §172, n465

Abū Karib Asʿad, §61.2

Abū Khalīfah. See al-Faḍl ibn al-Ḥubāb

Abū l-Layth. See Muzāḥim ibn Fātik

Abū Mālik. See ʿAwn ibn Muhammad al-Kindī

Abū Muḥallim Muḥammad ibn Saʿd (or Hishām) ibn ʿAwf al-Shaybānī, §25.3, §69.15, §69.18

Abū Muḥammad al-Hadādī (transmitter), §180

Abū Muḥammad al-Khuzāʿī al-Makkī, §168. See also kitāb

Abū Nahshal ibn Ḥumayd, §169

Abū l-Najm al-ʿIjlī, §17.1–2

Abū Nuwās, al-Ḥasan ibn Hāniʾ al-Ḥakamī, xiii, xxi, xxv, xxviii, §6.2, §9.2, §11.1, §16, §21.2, §21.6, §22.10, §24.6, §27, §43.7, §72.1, §72.2, §76, §78.3, §81.4, §86.3, §100.2, §116.2, §116.3, §129; as inventor of motifs, §11.1, §43.7, §72.2–3, §76, §78.3

Abū l-Rabīʿ al-Minqarī (transmitter), §120

Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Azdī (transmitter), §86.1

Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn Hubayrah al-Asadī, Ṣaʿūdāʾ, §49.1

Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Thaghrī l-Ṭāʾī l-Ḥumaydīi l-Marwazī, §59, §90, §107–§109, §164, n96

Abū Ṣāliḥ. See Ibn Yazdād

Abū Ṣaqr. See Ismāʿīl ibn Bulbul

Abū l-Shīṣ. See ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī l-Shīṣ

Abū Sulaymān al-Nābulusī (transmitter), §113, §176

Abū Sulaymān the Blind (transmitter), §116.1

Abū l-Ṭamaḥān Ḥanẓalah ibn al-Sharqī l-Qaynī, §69.25

Abū Tammām, blame of, §69.6, §69.9, §71.1, §71.3, §110.1; criticized metaphors of, xxi, xxiii, §21.1–6, §22.1–10, §49.1; criticized motifs of, xxiii, §20.1–6, §69.5, §69.10–28, §71.1–9, n208, n216, n245, n344; critics, criticism of, xxi, §9.1–2, §10.2, §11.1, §19.1, §20.1–6, §21.1–3, §22.1, §22.7, §23.1, §23.7, §24.1, §28, §122.1–§131; style of, xiii, xx, §23.1, §26.2, §51.1, §129, n100; vita of, xiii–xvi. See also al-Buḥturī

Abū Tawbah al-Shaybānī, §80.1

Abū l-Ṭayyib Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Naḥwī l-Lughawī, §93.2, §99.1

Abū ʿUbaydah Maʿmar ibn al-Muthannā, §71.4, n232

Abū ʿUyaynah. See Ibn Abī ʿUyaynah

Abū l-Wazīr Aḥmad ibn Khālid, §49.1, n138

Abū Yazīd. See Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Shaybānī

account(s) (akhbār), xviii, xx, §7.2, §20.6, §29, §32, §34.2, §61.1, §82, §87.2–3, §110.1, §166, n38, n188, n199, n362, n447; historicity of, n136, n138; used in poetry, §78.5, §106.2

accusation, §78.3, §116.3, n207, n311; of Abū Tammām, §78.4, §86.2, §94.2, n216; of plagiary, §94.1

ʿĀd (tribe), §78.3

adab, xvi, xxviii, §46.1. See also knowledge, literary

ʿAdī, Banū, §89.4

adīb (udabāʾ). See men of letters, men of culture

ʿAdī (ibn Zayd ibn Mālik) ibn al-Riqāʿ, Abū Duʾād (or Dāwūd), §72.2, §135

admonition (ʿitāb), §87.2, §101.4

al-Afshīn, Khaydhār ibn Kāwūs, xiv, §50.1, §81.2

al-Afwah al-Awdī, Abū Rabīʿah Ṣalāʾah ibn ʿAmr, §81.6

Aḥmad ibn Abī Duʾād. See Ibn Abī Duʾād

Aḥmad ibn Abī Fanan, Abū ʿAbd Allāh, §41.1, §93.3

Aḥmad ibn Abī Ṭāhir. See Ibn Abī Ṭāhir

Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ghanawī (transmitter), §73, §91.4, §112

Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ismāʿīl (poet), §22.6

Aḥmad ibn Ismāʿīl. See Ibn al-Khaṣīb

Aḥmad ibn Isrāʾīl, §49.1, n138, n143

Aḥmad ibn al-Khaṣīb. See Ibn al-Khaṣīb

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Baṣrī (transmitter), §105, §114

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Muʿtaṣim, §110.1, §111

Aḥmad ibn Mūsā (transmitter), §163

Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā. See al-Balādhurī

Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā. See Thaʿlab

Aḥmad ibn Yazīd. See al-Muhallabī

Aḥnaf ibn Qays al-Tamīmī, §77, §110.1

Ahwāz, §120, §177

al-ʿAkawwak. See ʿAlī ibn Jabalah

akhbār, khabar. See accounts

akhdh. See borrowing

al-Akhṭal, Ghiyāth ibn Ghawth ibn al-Ṣalt, §7.3, §13.6, §22.1, §86.5–7

ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Jurayj al-Rūmī. See Ibn al-Rūmī

ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, §69.10, §87.4

ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan the Scribe (transmitter), §164

ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Yaḥyā the Scribe, (transmitter), §74

ʿAlī ibn Ismāʿīl al-Nawbakhtī, Abū l-Ḥasan, §59, §85

ʿAlī ibn Jabalah al-ʿAkawwak, §13.4–5, §62

ʿAlī ibn al-Jahm, xxii, §31–§33, §69.2, §91.2, §179, n92, n475

ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Anbārī, Abū l-Ḥasan (transmitter), §40.1

ʿAlī ibn Yaḥyā ibn Abī Manṣūr al-Munajjim, Abū l-Ḥasan, §24.2, §24.7

allusion, §78.5, n378, n393; Qurʾanic, n246, n263

al-Āmidī, Abū l-Qāsim al-Ḥasan ibn Bishr, xvi, n100, n215, n216, n415

Amorium (Ar. ʿAmmūriyyah), xiv, xxiii, §20.2, §20.5, §61.2–3, §73, n54, n178, n245

ʿAmr ibn Abī Qaṭīfah, (transmitter), §163

ʿAmr ibn Ḥafṣ al-Minqarī (transmitter), §92.5

ʿAmr ibn Hāshim al-Sarawī (transmitter), §152

ʿAmr ibn Hind, §69.15

ʿAmr ibn Kulthūm, n220

ʿAmr ibn Maʿdīkarib (Abū Thawr), §106.1–2, §110.1, n379, n382, n387

analogy (tamthīl), §110.1, n425

ancestry, §23.1, §24.4, §59–§60, §83, §89.8, §115, n395, n398, n419, n472, n473

Ancients (mutaqaddimūn), xvi, xx–xxi, xxiv, §9.1–2, §11.1–2, §14.1, §18, §20.6, §23.1, §24.15, §35, §51.1, §61.1, §61.3, §69.9, §103, §109

anecdote. See nādirah

anthology, anthologies, n12, n14; about Abū Tammām, §10.1; by Abū Tammām, xiv, xxi, xxvii, n26, n216, n225, n226, n278, n367, n422, n426, n430, n465

antithesis, antitheses, xv

apology (iʿtidhār), xxiv, §13.1–2, §25.1, §69.13, §76, §78.2–3, §78.5, §95.2, §143, n238

Aquila (constellation), §8, n8

ʿarabiyyah. See classical Arabic

Armenia, §79.1, n274

Arṭāh ibn Suhayyah al-Murrī (Arṭāh ibn Zufar ibn ʿAbd Allāh), §149

Asad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Qasrī, §143

al-Aʿshā, Maymūn ibn Qays, §22.8, §86.5

Ashjaʿ al-Sulamī, Abū l-Walīd, §33

al-Aṣmaʿī, Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Qurayb, §17.1, §19.4, §51.1–2, §69.8, §71.6, §127.2

al-ʿAttābī, Kulthūm ibn ʿAmr, §12.4, §22.9

al-ʿAttāf ibn Hārūn (transmitter), §133

audience, xiii, xviii–xix, xxiv, §73, §101.1, §106.1

augury, §61.2, §92.3

authority, authorities, creative, §26.1; of transmitter, §17.1, §19.4, §22.7, §24.15, §49.1, §71.4, §71.6, §86.3, §86.6, §89.4, §89.8, §95.3, §100.5, §126, §127.2, §129, §133, §138, §139, §143, §148–§149, §163, §168, §169; scholarly, xvi–xvii, §2.2, §9.1–2, §10.1, §69.8–9

awāʾil, xvi. See also Ancients

ʿAwānah ibn al-Ḥakam al-Kalbī, §95.3

ʿAwn ibn Muḥammad al-Kindī, Abū Mālik, §20.5, §78.1, §82, §90, §92.2, §101.1, §109, §155, §175

Aws ibn Ḥajar, §26.1, §69.24

ʿAyyāsh ibn Lahīʿah al-Ḥaḍramī, §68, n78

Ayyūb, §72.3, §78.5, §78.7, n241

al-Azraqī (transmitter), §168

ʿAzzah bint Ḥumayl al-Ḥājibiyyah, §161.3, n446

Bābak, xiv

badīʿ. See New Style

Badr, battle of, §61.3

Badr (servant), §112

Baghdad, xiv–xv, xix, xxv, §30

al-Baʿīth, Khidāsh ibn Bishr al-Mujāshiʿī, §52.4–5, §64.4

Bajkam al-Rāʾiqī, xvii

Bakr ibn Wāʾil (tribe), §121, n194, n196

al-Balādhurī, Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā, §180

al-Bandanījī, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Faraj, §39

Baradān, §40.2

Barmakids, §140.1

Barqaʿīd, §23.8

Bashshār ibn Burd, Abū Muʿādh, §9.2, §11.1, §12.2, §16, §17.2, §24.3, §24.21, §44.1, §70.3, §72.2, §89.8, §100.6, §130, n229

Basra, Basran, §120, §132, §161.1, §167, n331, n459

Bathshebah, n334

battle(s), §46.6, §47.8, §71.6, §80.1, §92.5, §93.1, §95.3, §106.2, §137, §139, §147, n266; biblical, n334; early Islamic, n263; of the Well, §25.2; pre-Islamic, §4.2. See also under place names

Bedouin, xiv–xv, §19.4, §22.8, §24.4, §24.29, §49.1–2, §114, §116.2–3, §140.2, §142, §152, §155, n12, n150, n216, n395, n400, n437

benefit, §69.19, §78.9, §90, §121; scholarly, §6.2, §7.1, §69.9, §87.3

blame, §69.11, §69.13, §89.7, §116.1; of destiny, §104; of al-Ṣūlī, §6.2, n36; used in poetry, §22.1, §22.8, §95.2, §167–§168. See also Abū Tammām

boast (fakhr), xx, xxiv, xxv, §2.4, §44.2, §69.1, §71.4, §71.6, §78.1, n213

book(s), notebook(s), xiii–xiv, xvii–xix, xxi–xxii, introd. n24, introd. n25, §7.1, §20.2, §20.6, §70.1, §79.1, §94.1, §122.2, §161.2, n270; by al-Ṣūlī, §6.2, §7.3, §32, §121, n351; on Abū Tammām, §19.1, §46.1. See also kitāb

book culture, xvii

borrowing (akhdh), xxiii–xxiv, introd. n23, §4.7, §52.7–8, §55.1, §69.2, §109, n51; by Abū Tammām, xxi, §25.2, §26.1–3, §34.1, §52.4, §72.1, §76, n198, n362; by al-Buḥturī from Abū Tammām, §43.1–5, §44.1–10, §46.1–6, §47.1–11, §48.1–4, n60, n100, n158, n201; rule, condition of, §26.1, §81.5; terminology of, n47, n100, n117. See also sariqa

brotherhood (literary), §31, §41.1

al-Buḥturī, Abū ʿUbādah (or Abū l-Ḥasan) al-Walīd ibn ʿUbayd, xix, xxii, xxiv, §13.5, §21.5, §25.1, §25.2, §33, §34.2, §36.1–2, §37–39, §40.1–3, §43.1, §43.3–5, §44.1–4, §44.7, §44.10, §45, §46.1, §46.3–4, §46.6, §47.1–2, §47.4–9, §47.11, §48.1–4, §51.1, §54, §59–§60, §67–§68, §85, §91.5, §107, §127.1, §159, n60, n61, n68, n85, n118, n158, n410, n416, n467, n472. See also borrowings

Buzurgmihr, §87.5

caliph (khalīfah), xvi, xviii, xx, §4.2, §69.19, §69.26, §74, §86.4, §111, n162, n341, n387. See also Commander of the Faithful

camel (in poetry), §11.1, §17.1, §47.2, §60, §64.1, §69.1, §69.12, §72.1, §78.4, §82, §88.1, §93.2, §99.2, §101.4, §109, §116.1–2, §118, §121, §172, n46, n178, n223, n368

Capella (Ar. al-ʿAyyūq), §71.1, §169

case endings (iʿrāb), xxvi, §4.6, §69.8

chamberlain(s), §81.1, §83

check (form of payment) (ṣakk), §73

Chosroes (Ar. Kisrā), §61.2

classical Arabic (ʿarabiyyah), xvii, xix–xx

clerks, xv. See also secretary, secretaryship, and scribe

cloak. See description

Collected Works (dīwān), Abū Tammām, xxi–xxii, xxvii, §20.1, §28, §105, §106.2, §108, §166, n56; by al-Ṣūlī of other poets, xxi, xxv, §7.3, §27

Commander of the Faithful, §13.6, §49.1, §61.2, §73–§74, §87.4, §143, §173. See also caliph (khalīfa)

commentary, commentaries, xxi, xxvi, n152, n219, n325, n327, n437; by al-Ṣūlī, xx, xxiii, introd. n18, §101.2, n46, n187, n456

comparison, §12.1–2, §21.2, §69.10, §101.5

compilation (taṣnīf, maṣannaf), xiv, xviii–xx, §6.1, §7.3, §28, §65.2, n216

composition (taʾlīf), of books, xvii–xviii, xxi, §7.2; of poetry, xiii, §48.1, §61.1, §64.3, §69.4, §74, §81.1, §81.4, §89.3, §101.5, §106.1, §108, n216, n447

continuation (of improvisation) (ijāzah), §30, §66.1, §169, n463. See also improvisation (ijāzah)

copying (of style), xxiii, xxix, n100

copyist, xxvii, introd. n25

court, xvii–xviii; poet, xxii

criticism, practical, xix, xxi, xxix, §52.1, n310, n310, n346. See also Abū Tammām, poetry critics

critics. See poetry critics

culture, xv, xvii, xix, xxvi, §3, §182.2; men of, xvi, §2.1, §3, §85, §97, §106.1, §182.2, §183. See also adab, men of letters, literati

Daghfal, §77

Damascus, §133, §146

Dāwūd ibn al-Jarrāḥ, Abū Sulaymān, §61.1

death, xxx, §8, §24.17, §30, §35, §45, §47.9–10, §49.1, §52.1, §52.3, §55.1–2, §58, §66.1, §69.1, §69.4–5, §69.19, §71.2–4, §71.6, §71.8–9, §78.3, §81.4, §90, §94.1, §95.1, §101.1, §101.5, §109, §147, §173, §177–§178, §182.2, §183, n138, n143, n267, n456

Deneb, §91.2, n316

description(s) (waṣf, pl. awṣāf), falling short, criticized, §110.1; of black women, §16; of female eagle, §12.1; of fire, §50.1; of fountain, §69.2, n197; of garment (robe, cloak, mantle), §92.1–2, §92.4–5; of home, §14.1–3; of horse, §40.1–2, n70; of intercourse, §15.1–2; of wine, §40.2, §91.3

desert (in poetry), §11.1, §47.2, §55.2, §64.2, §64.4, §78.3, §78.5, §108, §116.2, n168, n179

Dhū Qār, battle of, §69.1, n196

Dhū l-Rummah, Ghaylān ibn ʿUqbah, §22.2, §47.3, §61.3, n179

Diʿbil ibn ʿAlī l-Khuzāʿī, xxii, §24.30, §31, §34.1–2, §90, §94.1–2, §95.1, §122.1–2, §168, §177, n38, n216, n392, n460, n462

dinar(s), §27, §41.1, §62, §64.3, §73–§74, §81.1, §91.1–2, §92.2, §93.4, §96, §99.2, §109, n150, n188, n199

dirham(s), xix, §27, §36.1, §58, §66.1, §68, §69.3, §69.8, §73, §79.1, §80.1, §82–§83, §96, §116.3, §135, §160, n188, n199

Dissidents (Khawārij), §4.2, §95.3

dīwān. See Collected Works

edition, xxv, n445; of Abū Tammām’s poetry, xxi–xxii, xxvi–xxvi, introd. n18, §2.4, §22.10, §28, n447

eloquence, eloquent, xxiv, §11.1, §23.4, §35, §47.1, §61.1, §66.1, §69.15, §80.1, §100.3, §151, §155, n191

Egypt, §164, n359, n451

Emissary, The (Muḥammad), §1, §4.1, §71.3, §74, §78.1, §78.9, §81.6, §86.2, §90, §97, §119, §185, n263

emulation (muʿāraḍah, iḥtadhāʾ), xxiii, xxix, §69.13, n100, n204. See also imitation

epistle (risālah), xvii, xxi, xxviii, §2.3, §28

eulogy, xvii, §20.2, §36.1. See also praise poetry

al-Faḍl ibn al-Ḥubāb al-Jumaḥī l-Baṣrī, Abū Khalīfah, §89.3–4, §89.7

al-Faḍl ibn Marwān, §49.1

Faḍl ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Muḥammad al-Yazīdī, Abū l-ʿAbbās, §53, §105

al-Faḍl ibn al-Rabīʿ ibn Yūnus, Abū l-ʿAbbās, §129

fakhr. See boast

Fanjākh, Abū l-Faḍl the Scribe (transmitter), §93.4

al-Farazdaq, Abū Firās Hammām ibn Ghālib, §7.3, §13.3, §24.24, §44.6, §86.5–6, §89.2–3, §89.5–6, §101.3, §101.5, n93, n448

farsakh (league), §115

figure(s), rhetorical, xxii. See also allusion, analogy, antithesis, hyperbole, paronomasia, personification, pun, synechdoche

Flytings (Naqāʾiḍ). See kitāb

format (rasm) (of book), xxvii, §7.3, n296

freed slave (mawlā), §83, §115, §135. See also slave

garment. See description

gatherings (literary), xv, xxii, §3, §4.5, §5.2, §7.1, §10.1, §11.2, §34.1, §36.1, §59, §72.2, §86.4, §95.2, §133, §135, §141, §145, §150, n6, n173

genealogy, genealogies, §4.2, §4.7, §7.3, §116.3, n170, n202

al-Gharīḍ, Abū Yazīd ʿAbd al-Malik, §69.18

Ghassanids (or Jafnids), §69.13

ghazal. See love lyric

gift(s) (of patron), §34.1–2, §43.3–4, §43.6–7, §47.11, §49.2, §79.1, §82, §87.1, §91.3, §99.2, §101.1, §102, §106.1, §109, §135, §137, §165, n193, n441. See also patron(s)

governor(s), xxi, §4.2, §64.1, §64.3, §79.1, §92.5, §160, n93, n188, n250, n274, n451

grammarian(s), xiv, xvii, §30, §37, §49.1, §71.2, §79.1, §91.2, §92.5, §95.2, §99.1

Great ode (muʿallaqa), §69.22, n219, n220, n221, n222. See also ode

al-Habāʾah, Battle of, §25.2

Ḥabīb ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr, §71.4

Hadith (body of hadith), xviii, §4.3, §32

hadith (single narrative), §78.2, n254

Ḥabīb ibn al-Muhallab (transmitter), §139

Hagar (Ar. Hājar), §81.6

Ḥājibī girl. See ʿAzzah

al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf, §13.3, §78.5, §95.3

Ḥamdawayh al-Aḥwal the Scribe, §40.2–3

al-Ḥāmiḍ, Abū Mūsā Sulaymān ibn Muḥammad (or Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān) ibn Aḥmad, xxv, xxviii, §6.2

Ḥammād ʿAjrad, §89.8, §116.3

Ḥammād ibn Isḥāq al-Mawṣilī, §100.5, n12

Ḥammād al-Rāwiyah, §86.6–7

Ḥanīfa, Banū, §24.4, §89.6

al-Ḥārith ibn Muḍāḍ (al-Jurhumī), §166, n456

Hārūn ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muhallabī, Abū Bakr (transmitter), §34.1

Hārūn ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik (al-Zayyāt, Abū Mūsā), §173

Hārūn al-Rashīd. See al-Rashīd.

al-Ḥasan ibn Rajāʾ, §65.1, §82–§84, §86.1, §90, §92.2

al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUlayl al-ʿAnazī, §132

al-Ḥasan ibn Wahb al-Ḥārithī, Abū ʿAlī, xxii, §61.1, §61.3–4, §66.1, §91.1, §92.1, §93.1–2, §93.4, §94.2, §95.1, §98, §167, §169, §174, §178, §181, n138, n143, n182, n338

Hāshim, Banū, §7.3, §61.1

Ḥātim al-Ṭāʾī, §77, §110.1

Ḥayr (castle), §78.1

al-Haytham ibn ʿAdī ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṭāʾī, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, §95.3

al-Ḥazanbal, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀṣim al-Tamīmī l-Iṣbahānī, §22.7, §69.1

heretic. See zindīq

hijāʾ. See lampoon

Ḥimyar, §116.1, §152

al-Ḥīrah, n195

Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, §140.2, §143, §151

honor (in poetry), §24.1–2, §24.6, §24.10, §24.21, §47.7–8, §52.5, §60, §116.1, §183, n476

hope (rajāʾ) (expressed in poetry), §34.1, §43.1, §47.11, §61.2, §78.2, §80.1, §82, §93.4, §94.1, §96, §104, §106.1, §111, §168, §180, §183, n285

horse. See description

Ḥudhāq, §78.5

Ḥujr ibn Aḥmad, §20.5

Ḥumayd, Banū, §91.5, n319

Ḥumayd ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ṭūsī, Abū Ghānim, §13.4, §107

al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh (transmitter), §38

al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḍaḥḥāk. See al-Khalīʿ

al-Ḥuṣayn ibn al-Ḥumām ibn Rabīʿah al-Murrī, §147

al-Ḥusayn ibn Wadāʾ (transmitter), §92.2

al-Ḥuṣrī, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī, xvi, n13

al-Ḥuṭayʾah, Jarwal ibn Aws al-ʿAbsī, §24.9, §24.15, §168

hyperbole, exaggeration, §72.2, n96, n326, n395

hyrax, §116.1

Ibn ʿAbbād, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad, the Scribe, §24.13

Ibn ʿAbd Kān, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad, §67

Ibn Abī Duʾād, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad, §72.1, §73–§77, §78.2–5, §80.2, §104, §167, n257

Ibn Abī Khaythamah (Abū Bakr Aḥmad al-Nasāʾī), §122.2

Ibn Abī Rabīʿah. See ʿUmar ibn Abī Rabīʿah

Ibn Abī Saʿd (transmitter), §81.2

Ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr, Abū l-Faḍl Aḥmad, xxv, §24.18, §53, §86.3, §100.6, §133, §134.1–2, §135–§138, §140.1, §141, §142–§154, n429

Ibn Abī ʿUyaynah the Younger, Abū l-Minhāl Abū ʿUyaynah ibn Muḥammad, §65.2

Ibn al-Aʿrābī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ziyād, xxii, §42.1, §87.2, §88.1–2, §123, n298, n299

Ibn Dāwūd. See Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd

Ibn Jabalah. See ʿAlī ibn Jabalah

Ibn al-Jahm. See ʿAlī ibn al-Jahm

Ibn al-Jarrāḥ. See Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd

Ibn al-Kalbī, Abū l-Mundhir Hishām ibn Muḥammad, §149

Ibn al-Khaṣīb, Aḥmad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jarjarāʾī, §49.1, §60, §63, §91.3, §93.2, §96, §106.1, §111, §160, §166, §171, n138

Ibn al-Khayyāṭ al-Madīnī l-Makkī, ʿAbd Allāh (ibn Muhammad, or ibn Yūnus) ibn Sālim, §79.2

Ibn Lajaʾ al-Taymī, ʿUmar (or ʿAmr) ibn al-Ashʿath, §89.3

Ibn Lisān al-Ḥummarah, Rabīʿah ibn Ḥiṣn, §136

Ibn al-Mahdī. See Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mahdī

Ibn Mayyādah, Abū Shuraḥbīl (or Abū Sharāḥīl) al-Rammāḥ ibn al-Abrad, §14.2, n12

Ibn Mihrawayh, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim al-Dīnawarī, §35, §126, §161.1, §184, n292

Ibn al-Muʿadhdhal, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad, §22.3, §92.3, §120

Ibn al-Mudabbir, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh, §52.1, §87.2

Ibn al-Muʿtazz, Abū l-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh, xxii, xxviii, §49.1, §51.1, §52.1, §52.7, §87.2–3, §87.6, §91.2, §95.2, §171

Ibn Qanbar (or Ibn Qunbur), al-Ḥakam ibn Muḥammad al-Māzinī, §70.2

Ibn Qays ibn Shurayḥ al-Ruqayyāt, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Qays, §20.3

Ibn al-Rūmī, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Jurayj, xxii, xxviii, §14.3, §15.2, §16, §24.18, §63

Ibn Sallām. See al-Jumaḥī

Ibn Sīdah, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ismāʿīl, n299

Ibn al-Ṭathriyyah, Abū Makshūḥ (or Abū l-Ṣimma) Yazīd ibn al-Muntashir, §161.2

Ibn Ṭawq. See Mālik ibn Ṭawq

Ibn Thawābah, Abū l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, §10.1

Ibn Yazdād, Abū Ṣāliḥ ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, §127.1

Ibn al-Zayyāt, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, §24.5, §49.1, §66.1–§66.2, §93.4, §96, §174, §182.1–§182.2, n138

Ibn al-Zubayr. See ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr

Ibrāhīm ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Ṣūlī, xvi, §24.5, §41.2, §55.1–2, §56, §61.1, §69.11, §69.15, §172

Ibrāhīm ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jarjarāʾī, §49.1

Ibrahīm ibn al-Mahdī, §26.3

Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mudabbir. See Ibn al-Mudabbir

Ibrāhīm ibn al-Rabāḥ, §49.1, n138

ʿIlāf ibn Hulwān of Quḍāʿah, §47.3

ʿilm. See knowledge

ʿilm al-shiʿr. See knowledge, literary

imitation, xxii–xiv, xxix, §40.2–3, §43.3, §69.24, §93.4, n400. See also emulation

improvisation (ijāzah), xxiii, §83, §98, n252, n289. See also continuation (of improvisation) (ijāzah)

Imruʾ al-Qays, §12.1, §20.6, §69.22, §86.5, n221

insult, §69.10, §87.6, §99.2; of Abū Tammām, §9.2, §69.6, §94.1, §95.1, §110.1, §118; of al-Ṣūlī, §6.2; used in poetry, §24.10–11, §24.19, §24.21, §24.25–26, §121, §168, n392. See also lampoon (hijāʾ)

innovation, innovativeness (poetic), xix, xxii–xxiii, xxv, §11.1, §23.2, §61.3, n198. See also Moderns, New Style

intercessor, intercession, §34.1, §78.5, §78.7, §80.2, §87.1

invention, inventiveness (poetic), xv, xxi, xxiii–xxiv, §11.1, §26.1, §52.8, §72.1. See also Moderns, New Style

iʿrāb. See case endings

ʿIṣābah al-Jarjarāʾī, Abū Isḥāq Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad (or Ibrāhīm ibn Bādhām), §90

al-Iṣbahānī, Abū l-Faraj ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, xvi, n462

Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥusayn al-Muṣʿabī, §73, §102–§104

Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī, §103, n298

Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd Allāh (transmitter), §154

Ismāʿīl ibn Bulbul, Abū l-Ṣaqr, §43.5

Ismāʿīl ibn Muhājir (transmitter), §81.2

isnād (chain of transmission), xvii, §78.2, n254, n288, n429. See also transmission, transmitter

Iyād (tribe), §78.3, §78.5, n257

Iyās ibn Muʿāwiyah ibn Qurrah al-Muzanī, §110.1

al-Jabal (or al-Jibāl) (province), §92.2

Jarīr ibn ʿAṭiyyah ibn Khaṭafā, xxv, §7.3, §24.24, §69.19, §86.5–6, §89.2–4, §89.6–7, §101.3, §161.4, n300, n306, n448

Jāsim, §29, §114

Jesus, §119

Joseph (Yūsuf), n359, n451

judge, xvi, xxi, §41.2, §49.2, §74, §78.2, §89.7, §91.2, §93.1, §101.2, §106.1, §133

al-Jumaḥī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Sallām, §89.3–§89.4, §89.6–§89.7

al-Junayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Murrī, §172

Kaʿb, Banū, §69.12

Kaʿb ibn Zuhayr, §71.3, §74

Kalb (tribe), §116.1, §138

Karbalāʾ, battle of, §97

Kayyis, §77

khabar. See accounts

Khalaf al-Aḥmar, §86.6, n236

al-Khalīʿ, Abū ʿAlī l-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḍaḥḥāk al-Ashqar al-Baṣrī, §100.2, §114

Khālid al-Ḥadhdhā (poet), §114

Khālid ibn Yazīd ibn Ḥātim, §60

Khālid ibn Yazīd ibn Mazyad al-Shaybānī, Abū Yazīd, §78.5, §78.7, §79.1, §80.1–2, §81.1–2, §125, n170, n172

Khālid al-Qasrī, §140.2

al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Farāhīdī l-Azdī, §69.7

khamriyya. See wine song

al-Khansāʾ, Tumāḍir bint ʿAmr, §72.2, n216

al-Khathʿamī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Kūfī, §162, §177

Khiyār the Scribe, §24.28

Khuld (palace), §37

Khurasan (Ar. Khurāsān), xiv, §41.1, §42.2, §64.1, §91.5, §105, §106.2, §160, n93, n320

al-Khuraymī, Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Ḥassān ibn Qūhī, §69.5, §69.21, §69.23–24

al-Kindī, Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq, §34.2

Kisrā. See Chosroes

Kitāb [fī akhdh al-Buḥturī min Abī Tammām] (Al-Buḥturī’s borrowings from Abū Tammām) (Abū l-Ḍiyāʾ Bishr ibn Yaḥyā the Scribe), §46.1, n100

Kitāb Adab al-kuttāb (The Scribe’s Vademecum) (al-Ṣūlī), xviii

Kitāb Akhbār Abī Nuwās (The Life and Times of Abū Nuwās) (al-Ṣūlī), §27

Kitāb Akhbār Abī Tammām (The Life and Times of Abū Tammām) (al-Ṣūlī), xiii, xvii, xix–xxi, xxiii, xxv–xxvii, §2.4, §28, §185

Kitāb Akhbār al-Farazdaq (The Life and Times of al-Farazdaq) (al-Ṣūlī), xxv, §7.3

Kitāb Akhbār Jarīr (The Life and Times of Jarīr), §7.3

Kitāb al-Awrāq (The Book of Folios) (al-Ṣūlī), xviii

Kitāb al-Ḥamāsah (The Book on Bravery) (Abū Tammmām), xiv, xxi, xxvii, n216, n225, n426, n430, n433, n465

Kitāb Makkah (The Book of Mecca) (Abū Muḥammad al-Khuzāʿī al-Makkī), §168

Kitāb al-Muwashshaḥ (The Embroidered Book) (al-Marzubānī), xvi, n339

Kitāb al-Muwāzanah bayn shiʿr Abī Tammām wa-l-Buḥtūrī (Weighing Up the Merits of Abū Tammām and His Disciple al-Buḥturī) (al-Āmidī), xvi, xxix, n100, n415

Kitāb Naqāʾiḍ al-Jarīr wa-l-Farazdaq (The Flytings of al-Jarīr and al-Farazdaq) (attr. to Abū ʿUbaydah), §13

al-Kitāb al-Shāmil fī ʿilm al-qurʾān (The Compendium on the Knowledge of the Qurʾān) (al-Ṣūlī), §6.2

Kitāb al-Shubbān wa-l-nawādir (The Book of Youths and Choice Anecdotes) (al-Ṣūlī), §6.2

Kitāb al-Waḥshiyyāt (The Book of Rare Poems) (Abū Tammām), xxvii, n26, n226, n278, n367, n422, n465

Kitāb al-Waraqah (The Book of the Folio) (Ibn al-Jarrāḥ), n445

Kitāb al-Wasāṭa bayna l-Mutanabbī wa-khuṣūmihī (Mediation between al-Mutanabbī and His Opponents) (al-Qāḍī al-Jurjānī), xx

Kitāb Zahr al-ādāb (The Flowering of the Literary Arts) (al-Ḥuṣrī), xvi, n13

knowledge, §4.1–5, §4.7–8, §35, §82; literary, §2.4, §3, §4.6, §7.1, §9.2, §18, §20.5, §32–§33, §46.1, §65.1–2, §69.6, §87.1, §87.6, §101.2, n5. See also adab

al-Kudaymī, Abū l-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn Yūnus al-Qurashī, §127.2

al-Kumayt ibn Zayd al-Asadī, §168, n460, n462

Kuthayyir, §161.3–4, n447

Labīd ibn Rabīʿah al-ʿĀmirī, n219

lafẓ. See wording

Lakhmids, n261

lament (marthiyah), xxiii–xxiv, §2.4, §35, §69.4, §69.19, §94.2, §101.4, §117, §177–184, n204, n214, n216, n226, n236, n450, n467, n474

lampoon (hijāʾ), xiv, xxiv, §24.1–30, §40.1–3, §50.1, §65.2, §69.5, §69.8, §69.19, §89.4, §89.7, §94.1, §95.2–3, §113–§121, §131, §168, §180, n28, n127, n398, n419, n448, n462

Laqīṭ ibn Yaʿmar al-Iyādī, §92.1

al-Lāt, §86.3, n292

lawdh (reliance) (on a literary model), xxiii, xxix, n100. See also sariqah

league. See farsakh

love lyric (ghazal), xxiv, §4.5, §35, §69.10, §69.16, §98, n66, n213, n356, n367

Maʿarrat al-Nuʿmān, §36.1–2

Maʿbad ibn Wahb, §46.4

Mabhūtah al-Hāshimī, §83

al-Madāʾinī, Abū l-Ḥasan, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad, §88.1

Madhḥij (tribe), §178, n466

madīḥ. See panegyric

al-Mahdī, §13.2, §79.2

Maḥmūd ibn al-Ḥasan al-Warrāq, §78.1–2

Mālik (kinsman of Ṣafiyyah al-Bāhiliyya), §69.18

Mālik ibn Abī l-Samḥ of Ṭayyiʾ, §46.4

Mālik ibn Dalham (transmitter), §149

Mālik ibn Ṭawq ibn ʿAttāb al-Taghlibī, §77, n250

al-Maʾmūn, xiv

maʿnā, xxiii, xxix. See also meaning

Manṣūr ibn Bādhān al-Iṣbahānī, §24.22

Manṣūr ibn Salamah ibn al-Zibriqān al-Namarī (Abū l-Faḍl, or Abū l-Qāsim), §12.3, §18

mantle. See description

marthiyah. See lament

Marwān (ibn Sulaymān ibn Yaḥyā) ibn Abī Ḥafṣah, Abū l-Simṭ, §100.5

Mary, §119

Maryam bint Ṭāriq, n216

al-Marzubānī, Abū ʿUbayd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿImrān, xvi

al-Maṣṣīṣah (Byzantine Mopsuestia), §73

Masʿūd ibn ʿĪsā (transmitter), §98

matching (of style) (taqdīr), xxix, §48.1, §83, n100

mathal, tamaththul. See pithy saying

mawlā. See freed slave

Maymūn ibn Hārūn (transmitter), §170

meaning, xxiii, introd. n24, §22.8, §26.1, §47.1, §47.6, §69.19, §100.2, n100, n117, n121, n140, n171, n206, n266. See also maʿnā

men of letters, literati, §46.1, §72.2, §83. See also culture, men of

merchandise (in poetry), §66.2, §99.1

metaphor(s) (istiʿārah), combination of (formal unity), n30; of city as woman, n176; of commerce, n284; of fever for generosity, §21.1–21.6; of travel, n46; of water, §22.1–10; of wing of humility, §22.8

Miṣmaʿ, Banū, §24.10

Mithqāl, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Wāsiṭī, §63

Modern(s) (muḥdath(ūn), xv–xvi, xviii, xx–xxi, xxiv, xxvi, §4.6, §9.2, §11.1–2, §20.6, §23.1, §33, §35, §61.1, §88.2, n2. See also motif(s) (of poetry), Modern

money, xix, §36.1, §49.2, §74, §79.1, §93.2, §138, n138

moon (in poetry), xxiii, §4.5, §8, §12.3, §24.14, §24.18, §30, §48.4, §50.2, §52.7, §60, §69.4–6, §69.11, §69.15, §69.17–21, §78.5, §92.3, §93.1, §94.1, §101.1, §150, §172, n208, n213, n216

Mosul (Ar. al-Mawṣil), xiv, xvii, §92.1, §113, §174–§175, §177–§178

motif(s) (of poetry), borrowed, taken, reused, §6.1, §13.4, §15.2, §25.2, §26.1, §37, §40.3, §43.1, §47.3, §69.14–20, n47, n60, n85, n158, n198, n201, n362; common, shared, §43.3–6, §52.8, n100; criticized, found fault with, xxiii, §20.2, §40.3, §124, n208, n216, n245, n344; entitlement to, §26.1, §34.1–2, §81.5; evaluation of, §69.6; expanded, development of, xxiii, xxix, §11.1, §13.4, §30, §40.3, §46.5, §51.1, §65.2; falling short in, §37, §47.8; lifted, stolen, plagiarized, xxiii, §34.1–2; Modern, xxi, §11.1, §24.15, §65.1–2, §109, n5, n30, n165, n173, n213; novel, innovative, coined, xv, xxiv, §11.1, §26.1, §43.7, §51.1, §61.1, §72.1–2, §78.4, §96, §100.3, §103, §177, n229; of abandoned campsite, §11.1, §92.4, n85, n219, n222; of dignity as a gift, §34.1–2; of dog barking at stars, §24.14–16; of eagles following army, §81.2–3, §81.5–6; of fallen moon, xxiii, §69.5, §69.10–28, §94.1; of falling in love through sound, §70.3, n229; of fate defeating virtue, §25.5, §47.5; of figs and grapes, xxiii, §20.1–6; of friendship outweighing kinship, §41.1–2; of impossible escape, §13.1–4; of insanity, §21.1–6; of love for death, §45, §71.8; of people not worth a lampoon, §24.1–9, §24.12–13, §24.19, §24.21–25, §24.27–29; of physical travel vs. mental stasis, §41.1–2; of praise by one’s enemies, §46.3; of requests as sweet, §46.4–5; of sniffing at wounded prey, §89.3–4; of sword falling on one’s head, xxiii, §71.1–9; of three or four emblematic things, §8, §47.2–3; of trees pastured by ostriches and antelopes, §116.2, n399; older, ancient, xv, xxiii, §9.1, §11.1–2, §13.4, §21.4, §69.15, §69.20, n236; rule, condition for borrowing of, xxiv, §26.1, §52.8, §81.5. See also Modern(s)

muʿallaqa. See Great ode

Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (Muʿāwiyah I), §149

al-Mubarrad, Abū l-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Akbar al-Azdī, xvi–xvii, xxii, xxv, §4.1, §5.1, §30, §37, §51.1–2, §65.1, §71.2, §79.1, §81.1, §84, §91.1–2, §92.5, §95.2, §101.1, §101.4, n12

Muḍar (tribe), §78.1, §78.4, n251

al-Muhallab ibn Abī Ṣufrah, Abū Saʿīd al-Azdī, §78.6

al-Muhallabī, Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yazīd, §35, §58, §93.3, §100.2, §133, §134.1, §135–§139, §140.1, §141–§154, §161.1, §179, n429

al-Muhallabī, Abū Khālid Yazīd ibn Muḥammad, §24.11, §157

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbbād. See Ibn ʿAbbād

Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās (transmitter), §71.4

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀṣim al-Tamīmī. See al-Ḥazanbal

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Zayyāt. See Ibn al-Zayyāt

Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā l-Qummī, Abū Jaʿfar, §40.2, §91.3

Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr al-Rūmī (transmitter), §74

Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd ibn al-Jarrāḥ, Abū ʿAbd Allāh, §34.2, §97, §122.2, §161.2, §162, §169

Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl (transmitter), §89.8

Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Yashkurī (transmitter), §124

Muḥammad ibn al-Haytham ibn Shabābah al-Khurāsānī, §92.2

Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥāzim al-Bāhilī, Abū Jaʿfar, xxii, §35

Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd al-Ṭūsī, Abū Muslim, xxiii, §69.4, §69.11, n214, n450

Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn (transmitter), §169

Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAttāb, Abū Bakr (transmitter), §132

Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Khuttalī (tax agent and transmitter), §99.2

Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Naḥwī. See Abū l-Ṭayyib al-Lughawī

Muḥammad ibn Khālid al-Shaybānī (transmitter), §144

Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr ibn Ziyād, known as “the Army Man”(Fatā l-ʿAskar), §50.1

Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Hāshimī (transmitter), §120

Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn Ḥammād al-Barbarī, Abū Aḥmad, §31, §61.1, §66.1, §92.1, §93.1, §94.1–2, §108, §167, §174

Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Rāzī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh (transmitter), §99.2

Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Khallād. See Abū l-ʿAynāʾ

Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Mihrawayh. See Ibn Mihrawayh

Muḥammad ibn Rawḥ al-Kilābī (transmitter), §73

Muḥammad ibn Saʿd al-Raqqī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh (transmitter and scribe), §82

Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd (transmitter), §17.1, §100.5

Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd Abū Bakr al-Aṣamm (transmitter), §41.1

Muḥammad ibn Sallām. See al-Jumaḥī

Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir II, Abū ʿAbd Allāh, §160

Muḥammad ibn Yahyā ibn al-Jahm al-Barmakī, §50.1

Muḥammad ibn Yazīd. See al-Mubarrad

Muhammad ibn Yūsuf. See Abū Saʿīd al-Thaghrī

Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ ibn Dīnār al-Ghalābī l-Baṣrī l-Ṣaḥḥāf, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, §95.3

Muḥammad the Emissary, §1, §4.1, §71.3, §74, §78.1, §78.9, §81.6, §86.2, §90, §97, §119, §185, n263

muḥdath, muḥdathūn. See Modern(s)

mujūn (bawdy poetry), n15

al-Mukhabbal, Abū Yazīd Rabīʿah ibn Mālik al-Saʿdī, §24.15

Mukhallad ibn Bakkār al-Mawṣilī, §24.27, §112–§115, §116.1–2, §117, §119–§120, §175

Muknif, Abū Sulmā l-Madanī, §94.1–2, n216

al-Muktafī, xvii

al-Muqtadir, xvii

Muṣʿab ibn al-Zubayr, Abū ʿAbd Allāh (or Abū ʿĪsā), §71.6

Musabbiḥ ibn Ḥātim al-ʿUklī (transmitter), §116.3

Muslim ibn al-Walīd, known as Ṣarīʿ al-Ghawānī, xxviii, §9.2, §16, §24.1, §24.4, §26.3, §44.9, §55.1, §81.3, §86.3, n38, n271

al-Mutanabbī, xiii, xxi, xxix

al-Muʿtaṣim, Abū Isḥāq, xiv, xx, §20.2, §20.5, §55.2, §56, §61.1, §61.3, §73–§74, §81.2, §167, n66, n164, n180, n244, n245

al-Muʿtazz, §43.6, n143

al-Muttaqī, xvii

Muzāḥim ibn Fātik al-Muʿtaḍidī (or al-Muqtadirī), Abū l-Layth (or Abū Fātik), xvii, xxi, xxviii

Nabatean(s), §114, §116.1, n411

Nabhān, Banū, §69.4–5

al-Nābighah al-Dhubyānī, Ziyād ibn Muʿāwiyah, §13.1, §13.4, §15.1, §69.13–15, §69.20, §81.5, §86.5

al-Nābighah al-Jaʿdī, Ḥibbān ibn Qays, §26.2, §51.2

nādirah, nawādir (anecdote), n6, n299

Nafnaf, §94.1

Najāḥ ibn Salamah, §49.1, n138

al-Najāshī, Qays (or Ṣimʿān) ibn ʿAmr, §69.17

Najd, §78.2, §78.5, §91.5, §95.1–2, n320, n347

al-Namarī. See Manṣūr al-Namarī

naql (copying, transposing) (of poetry), xxiii, xxix, n100, n212. See also borrowing, sariqah

nasīb (amatory prelude), n213

Naṣr ibn Manṣūr ibn Bassām, Abū l-ʿAbbās, §165

Naṣr ibn Sayyār al-Laythī l-Kinānī, §143, n93

Nawbakht (or Naybakht), Banū, §10.1–2

New Style (badīʿ), xv, xxix, n2. See also Moderns

Nishapur. See Abrashahr

Nizār. See Rabīʿah

novelty (in poetry), xxiii, §26.1, §52.8, §66.1, §177

Nūḥ (Noah), §116.3, n402

Nūḥ ibn ʿAmr al-Saksakī l-Ḥimṣī, §47.5

al-Nuʿmān III ibn al-Mundhir, §13.1, §69.13, §78.4, §78.8, n261

Nuṣayb ibn Rabāḥ, §69.20

ode (qaṣīdah), xiii–xiv, xxii–xxiii, xxvii, §13.1, §44.2, §81.2, §83, §94.1–2, §96, §103, §105, §110.1, §125, §135, §168, n23, n52, n66, n96, n124, n132, n162, n170, n173, n182, n198, n203, n245, n354, n379, n389, n416; abridgment of, xxii, xxiv, xxvii, n152, n173, n182, n198, n349; selection from, §61.4, n182. See also Great Ode

originality (ibdāʿ), xxiii, xxix, §2.1, n2. See also New Style, self-reliance, innovation, invention

page (ghulām), §93.1–4, §98, §170

Palmyra (Ar. Tadmur), §40.1

panegyric, praise poem (madīḥ), xiii–xiv, xix, xxiv, §8, §13.4, §40.2–3, §43.3–7, §59, §62, §66.1–2, §68, §69.1–5, §69.13–15, §71.3, §72.1–2, §73, §78.2, §78.4–5, §79.2, §81.1–2, §82–83, §89.1, §90, §92.1, §92.4, §93.3, §96, §103, §105, §107, §110.1, §118, §120, §125, §129, §135, §143, §150, §160, §165, n26, n66, n79, n83, n96, n162, n164, n170, n244, n249, n332, n362, n387, n436

panegyrist, praise poet, xiii, §74

paronomasia, n53, n329, n345, n347, n376, n477, n478. See also pun

patron(s), xiv, xvii, xix, xxi, n72, n249, n271, n358, n370, n411, n436. See also gift(s) (of patron)

performance context, xiii, §3

Persian, xv, §69.1, §100.2, §116.2, n310; language, xv, §100.1

personification, xv, n156, n368, n440

petitioner(s), §46.5, §48.3, §52.3, §83, §99.1, §104

philosopher(s), §69.9

physiomancy (firāsah), n393

pint. See raṭl

pithy saying (mathal), xv, §2.2, §7.3, §11.2, §172

plagiary. See borrowing, sariqah

praise poem. See panegyric

praise poet. See panegyrist, poet laureate

poem of praise. See panegyric

poet, professional, xiv, xix, xxii

poet laureate, §99.2, §106.1. See also panegyrist

poetry, apprentice, apprenticeship, in, xiv, §87.1; classical Arabic, xiii, xxiv; discipline of see knowledge, literary; income from, xiv, xvi; payment, reward for, xiv–xv, xix, xxii, §34.2, §41.1, §43.3, §64.3, §69.3–4, §71.3, §74, §79.2, §81.1–6, §82–§83, §87.1, §101.4, §105, §106.2, §107–§109, §116.3, §160, n72, n199, n242, n374, n378, n441; recipient(s) of, xiv, §74, §108, n386, n436

poetry critics (al-nuqqād li-l-shiʿr), xv, xix–xxi, xxiv, introd. n22, §7.2, §10.2, §20.4, §21.1, §23.1, §23.7, §24.6, §52.8, §69.21, §70.1, §71.1, §71.3, §86.4, n208

Potiphar, n451

prose, xvii, xix, §2.1, §23.3, §57, §61.1, §69.15, §87.1, §93.1, §122.2, n336

pun, word play, n37, n54, n144, n181, n200, n206, n245, n274, n283, n285, n290, n321, n343, n380, n381, n402, n406, n412, n446, n469. See also paronomasia

qāfiyah. See rhyme word

al-Qāhir, xvii

al-Qaʿqāʿ, Banū, §94.1

qaṣīdah. See ode

al-Qāsim ibn Ismāʿīl. See Abū Dhakwān

Qaṭarī ibn Fujāʾah, §95.3

Qays ʿAylān (tribe), §94.1, §116.1

Qays ibn Zuhayr ibn Jadhīmah al-ʿAbsī, §166

Qilābah al-Jarmī (transmitter), §147

Qirqīsiyāʾ, §40.3

Qūmis (Greek Komisené), §99.2

Quraysh, §4.1, §43.7, §44.6, §71.3

Quṭrabull (or Qaṭrabull), §40.2, n73

Rabīʿah ibn Nizār (tribe), §60, §69.3, §80.1

al-Rāḍī, xvii

rajāʾ. See hope

rajaz, §43.7, §87.2, §129

Raqabah ibn Maṣqalah al-ʿAbdī, §144

al-Rashīd, Hārūn, §52.6, §74

raṭl, §91.4

al-Rāzī, Abū Sahl (transmitter), §72.1, §160

reception (literary), xvi, xix

recite, recitation, xix, xxiv, §2.2, §7.2, §9.1, §10.2, §14.1, §20.4, §22.7, §23.6, §23.8–9, §24.15, §25.3, §25.5, §30, §36.1, §40.1, §40.3, §50.1, §52.3, §55.2, §56, §59–§60, §61.1, §64.1, §66.1, §69.1, §69.8, §69.11, §69.15, §69.18, §71.2, §72.1–2, §73, §75, §77, §81.2, §82–§83, §87.2, §89.2–3, §89.8, §90, §91.2, §92.2, §92.5, §93.3, §94.2, §97, §98, §100.2, §101.1, §103, §106.1, §110.1–2, §111, §115, §116.1, §123–§125, §129, §135, §160, §161.4, §165, §172, §177, §180, n23, n46, n52, n54, n124, n132, n245, n354, n378, n389, n442, n450; repetition of, §167, n457

reprimand. See admonition

reward. See poetry

rhyme word (qāfiyah), xxvi, §96, n20, n117, n118, n343

rhymed prose (sajʿ), n336

rithāʾ. See lament

robe of honor, xix, §92.1–2, §93.4, §99.2, §165

al-Ruḥbah, §113

Ṣafiyyah al-Bāhiliyya, §69.18, n217

saga. See sīrah

Sahm, §158, §159

Sahm ibn Ḥanẓalah ibn Khuwaylid al-Ghanawī, §71.7

Ṣāliḥ, §98, §170

Salm ibn ʿAmr al-Khāsir, §13.2–3, §13.6

Samarra, xix, §49.1, §73, §78.1

al-Samawʾal ibn Gharīḍ ibn ʿĀdiyāʾ, §71.8

Ṣamsām (sword), §106.1, n379

sariqah (theft, plagiary), xxiii, xxix, §4.7, §47.1, §78.4, §52.8, n100, n205, n212, n359. See also borrowing (akhdh)

satire. See lampoon

secretary, secretaryship, xvi, xviii, xxii, §67, §93.4, §164, n138. See also clerk and scribe

selection. See ode

scholar(s), xv–xvi, xix–xxi, xxv–xxvi, xxviii, §2.1–2, §2.4, §3, §4.1, §4.3, §5.1–2, §7.3, §9.1–2, §20.6, §23.3, §26.1, §32, §42.2, §69.7–8, §86.5, §87.1, §87.3, §89.9, §95.2, §101.3, n206

scribe, xiv–xv, xx, xxii, §10.1, §20.5, §24.13, §24.28, §61.1, §69.8, §69.15, §74, §82, §91.1, §92.2, §93.4, §95.2, §116.3, §127.1, §157, §174, n100, n402, n452. See also clerk and secretary, secretaryship

self-reliance (literary), xxiii, xv, §52.8, §55.1. See also New Style, originality

Shaʿban (Ar. Shaʿbān), §91.5, n322

Sharā, Mount, §20.2

Shawwal (Ar. Shawwāl), §165

al-Sijistānī, Abū Ḥātim Sahl ibn Muḥammad, xxii, §19.4, §71.4, §124

singer, §100.1–2, §100.4

sīrah, pl. siyar (saga), §4.1

slave(s), §23.8, §24.9–10, §24.29, §95.3, §98, §101.5, §116.1; as a metaphor, §71.3, §79.1, §93.4. See also freed slaves

song(s), §4.4, §46.4–5, §69.18, §100.1–4, n220, n366, n422

star(s) (in poetry), §4.5, §8, §12.2–4, §13.5, §24.15–16, §47.4, §48.1, §69.1, §69.4–5, §69.11, §69.13–15, §69.18–20, §69.25, §69.27, §91.1–2, §94.1, §101.1, §117, §150, §183, n8, n230, n231, n316, n6

stipend(s), xv, §34.2, §36.1. See also poetry, payment for

Suʿād, §71.3, §78.2

Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, Abū Ayyūb, §78.5–6, §145, n241

Sulaymān ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh, §115

Sulaymān ibn Wahb, Abū Ayyūb, §57, n138, n143

al-Ṣūlī, comments of, §20.6, §34.2, §50.2, §51.2, §52.4, §61.1–2, §72.2, §88.2; vita of, xvi–xix. See also kitāb

synechdoche, n21

Ṭaʾabbaṭa Sharran, Thābit ibn Jābir, n236

Tadmur. See Palmyra

Ṭāhirids, §42.2, §99.2, n358

taʾlīf. See composition (taʾlīf)

Ṭarafah ibn al-ʿAbd, n222

taṣnīf. See compilation (taṣnīf, muṣannaf)

al-Tawwajī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, §24.15, §86.6, §125, n417

Taym al-Lāt ibn Thaʿlabah (changed after Islam to Taym Allāh) (tribe), §136

Ṭayy, Ṭayyiʾ, Ṭayyite, §23.1, §29, §46.4, §49.1, §50.1, §59, §80.1, §91.5, §107, §115, §117, §121, §146, §167–§168, §173, §178, §181, §182.1, §184, n320, n472, n473

Thābit Quṭnah, Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Thābit ibn Kaʿb, §148

Thaʿlab, Abū l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā l-Shaybānī, xvi–xvii, xxii, xxv, xxix, §4.1, §5.1, §10.1–2, §25.5, §69.11, §88.1

theft, literary. See sariqah

Theophilos, §61.3

al-Tibrīzī, introd. n18, introd. n27, n152, n276, n325, n327, n352, n437

Tihāmah, §78.2, §78.5, §95.1–2

al-Ṭirimmāḥ, al-Ḥakam ibn Ḥakīm, Abū Nafar (or Abū Ḍabībah), §132

transmission, xvii, §101.2, n270. See also isnād

transmitter(s), xx, xxv, §4.3, §9.2, §53, §73, §89.8, §101.3, §114, n236

Transoxania, n360

Ṭufayl ibn ʿAwf al-Ghanawī, Abū Qurrān, §69.27, §71.7

Ṭūs, §91.5

ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭāhir, Abū Aḥmad, §53, §64.1, §91.3

ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Ḍaḥḥāk (transmitter), §95.3

ʿUbayd ibn Ayyūb al-ʿAnbarī, Abū l-Miṭrāb (or Abū l-Miṭrād) al-Liṣṣ (“the Thief”), §21.4

Udad, Banū, §78.3

ʿUmar ibn Abī Rabīʿah, §22.5

ʿUmar ibn Faraj al-Rukhkhajī, §49.1, n139

ʿUmar ibn Shabbah ibn ʿAbīdah al-Numayrī, Abū Zayd, §17.1, §89.8

ʿUmar ibn al-Walīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, §135

ʿUmārah ibn ʿAqīl ibn Bilāl ibn Jarīr, xxii, §30, §32, §50.1, §50.3, §81.1, §89.2

Umayyads, xiv, §7.3, §61.1, §71.6, n13, n179, n234

Uriah, n267, n334

al-ʿUtbī, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Muḥammad ibn Ubayd al-Umawī, §23.6, §46.2

Uways ibn ʿĀmir al-Murādī l-Qaranī, §92.1, n325

al-ʿUzzā, §86.3, n292

Wāʾil. See Bakr ibn Wāʾil

al-Walīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik (Walīd I), §69.19, §78.5, §78.7

al-Walīd ibn Yazīd (Walīd II), §133, n13

waṣf. See description

al-Wāthiq, §49.1–2, §50.1, §74, §93.4, §96, §171, §173, n66, n138, n244, n245

water. See metaphors

wine, xiii–xiv, §4.5, §40.2, §79.1, §91.1–5, §93.4, §94.1, n317, n319, n322

wine song (khamriyya), n220, n422

wording (lafẓ), xxix, §30, §43.1, §47.1, §47.6, §52.8, §61.1, §69.18, n47, n100, n109, n117, n118, n121

Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī ibn Yaḥyā l-Munajjim, Abū Aḥmad, §14.1, §23.9, §24.8, §103

Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah al-Ḥaḍramī, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, §133

Yaḥyā ibn Ismāʿīl al-Umawī (transmitter), §154

Yaʿqūb ibn Jaʿfar (transmitter), §116.3

Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq. See al-Kindī

Yazīd ibn Ḥātim ibn Qabīṣah ibn al-Muhallab ibn Abī Ṣufrah, §138

Yazīd ibn al-Muhallab ibn Abī Ṣufra, xvi, §78.5–6, §147–§148

Yazīd ibn Muḥammad. See al-Muhallabī

Yazīd ibn al-Ṭathriyyah. See Ibn al-Ṭathriyyah

Yazīd ibn Walīd (Yazīd III), §22.8, §133

Yemen, §17.1, §75, §78.1, §80.2, §172, n460

Yūnus ibn Ḥabīb, Abū Abd al-Raḥmān, §22.1

al-Zajjāj, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn al-Sarī, §23.9

zindīq (heretic), §49.1

Zufar. See Arṭāh ibn Suhayyah

Zuhayr ibn Abū Sulmā, §46.5, §86.5, §94.1

Zuhr, §78.5