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-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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ibn Isḥāq al-Mawṣilī, §100.5, n12
Ḥammād al-Rāwiyah, §86.6–7
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
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
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 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
Jesus, §119
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
Karbalāʾ, battle of, §97
Kayyis, §77
khabar. See accounts
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
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
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
madīḥ. See panegyric
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-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-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 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)
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
Raqabah ibn Maṣqalah al-ʿAbdī, §144
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 ibn Ḥanẓalah ibn Khuwaylid al-Ghanawī, §71.7
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
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
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
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
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
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
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