The Modern Poets (Ṭabaqāt al-shuʿarāʾ al-muḥdathīn)

Geert Jan van Gelder (PhD Leiden, 1982) was Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford from 1998 until his retirement in 2012. He has published widely on Classical Arabic Literature.

Preface
Abbreviations
Transliteration and Dates
Names

Introduction
 1 ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Muʿtazz: Death and Life
 2 Ibn al-Muʿtazz the Poet
 3 Ibn al-Muʿtazz the Literary Critic
 4 Ibn al-Muʿtazz as a Writer of Prose
 5 Ṭabaqāt al-shuʿarāʾ al-muḥdathīn (The Modern Poets)

Translation of The Modern Poets
 0 Introduction (spurious)
 1 Ibn Harmah
 2 Bashshār ibn Burd
 3 al-Sayyid al-Ḥimyarī
 4 Sudayf
 5 Marwān ibn Abī Ḥafṣah
 6 Abū Dulāmah
 7 Abū Nukhaylah
 8 Ḥammād ʿAjrad
 8a The three Ḥammāds (Ḥammād ʿAjrad, Ḥammād ibn al-Zibriqān, Ḥammād al-Rāwiyah)
 9 Abū l-Shīṣ
 10 Wālibah ibn al-Ḥubāb
 11 Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Quddūs
 12 Ibrāhīm ibn Sayābah
 13 Muṭīʿ ibn Iyās
 14 al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad
 15 Salm al-Khāsir
 16 Ibn Mayyādah
 17 al-ʿUmānī
 18 al-Ḥusayn ibn Muṭayr
 19 Ibn Munādhir
 20 Abū l-Shamaqmaq
 21 Abū l-Yanbaghī
 22 Abū l-Khaṭṭāb al-Bahdalī
 23 Abū l-Hindī
 24 Abū Ḥayyah al-Numayrī
 25 Khalaf al-Aḥmar
 26 Abū l-Ghūl
 27 ʿUmar ibn Salamah
 28 Abū l-Hawl al-Ḥimyarī
 29 Nuṣayb al-Aṣghar
 30 Rabīʿah al-Raqqī
 31 ʿAlī ibn Jabalah al-ʿAkawwak
 32 ʿAwf ibn Muḥallim al-Khuzāʿī
 33 Abū Nuwās
 34 Bakr ibn al-Naṭṭāḥ Abū Wāʾil
 35 al-Raqāshī
 36 Abū l-ʿAtāhiyah
 37 Muslim ibn al-Walīd al-Anṣārī
 38 Abān ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Lāḥiqī
 39 Manṣūr al-Namarī
 40 al-Baṭīn
 41 Ashjaʿ al-Sulamī
 42 al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Aḥnaf
 43 Saʿīd ibn Wahb
 44 al-ʿAttābī
 45 Diʿbil ibn ʿAlī al-Khuzāʿī
 46 al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḍaḥḥāk al-Bāhilī
 47 Ibrāhīm ibn Sayyār al-Naẓẓām
 48 Abū Muḥammad al-Yazīdī
 49 al-Ḥārithī [ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd al-Rahīm]
 50 Muḥammad ibn Yasīr al-Riyāshī
 51 Abū Tammām ibn Aws al-Ṭāʾī
 52 Abū l-ʿAmaythal
 53 Abū ʿUyaynah ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿUyaynah al-Muhallabī
 54 Isḥāq ibn Khalaf
 55 Abū Yaʿqūb al-Khuraymī
 56 Abū Saʿd al-Makhzūmī
 57 Makhlad ibn Bakkār al-Mawṣilī
 58 Abū l-Aṣbagh al-Ḥiṣnī
 59 Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥajjāj
 60 al-Ṣīnī, the poet of Ṭāhir ibn al-Ḥusayn
 61 al-Qiṣāfī al-Tamīmī
 62 al-Khārakī
 63 Muḥammad ibn Ḥāzim al-Bāhilī
 64 Muḥammad ibn Wuhayb
 65 Abū Khālid al-Muhallabī
 66 al-ʿUtbī
 67 ʿUmārah ibn ʿAqīl
 68 ʿAlī ibn al-Jahm al-Sāmī
 69 ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Umayyah
 70 Khālid the Carpenter (al-Najjār)
 71 Khālid the Hunter (al-Qannāṣ)
 72 ʿĪsā ibn Zaynab
 73 Muḥammad al-Yazīdī
 74 Abū Hilāl al-Aḥdab
 75 Abū l-Asad al-Thaʿlabī
 76 Ibn Shādah the Effeminate (al-Mukhannath)
 77 al-Muʿallā l-Ṭāʾī
 78 Durust (Ādharast?) al-Muʿallim
 79 Muḥammad al-Dawraqī
 80 Ibn ʿĀʾishah al-Qurashī
 81 Ismāʿīl ibn Yūsuf al-Baṣrī
 82 Abū l-ʿIjl
 83 Abū l-ʿIbar
 84 Manṣūr al-Iṣbahānī (al-Aṣbahānī)
 85 al-ʿAnbarī al-Iṣbahānī (al-Aṣbahānī)
 86 Ibn al-ʿAllāf al-Nahrawānī
 87 Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī
 88 Ibn Abī Ḥakīm
 89 al-ʿAtāhiyah ibn Abī l-ʿAtāhiyah
 90 ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī l-Shīṣ
 91 Maḥmūd al-Warrāq
 92 ʿAbd al-Ṣamad & Aḥmad ibnā l-Muʿadhdhal
 93 al-Ḥamdūnī, who described the ṭaylasān
 94 al-Jammāz al-Baṣrī
 95 Abū Shurāʿah
 96 Abū Firʿawn al-Sāsī
 97 Abū l-Fiḍḍah al-Baṣrī
 98 Abū l-Shibl
 99 Juʿayfirān al-Muwaswis
 100 Mānī l-Majnūn
 101 Abū Ḥayyān al-Muwaswis
 102 Muṣʿab al-Muwaswis
 103 Jaḥshawayh
 104 Abū Ḥukaymah
 105 Abū Naʿāmah al-Danqaʿī (al-Daqīqī?)
 106 Marwān ibn Abī Ḥafṣah al-Aṣghar
 107 al-Buḥturī
 108 al-ʿAṭawī Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān
 109 Ibn Abī Fanan
 110 Abū ʿAlī al-Baṣīr
 111 ʿIṣābah al-Jarjarāʾī
 112 Abū Salhab
 113 Ismāʿīl the Killer (al-Fattāk)
 114 Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim al-Dimashqī
 115 Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Kātib
 116 Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām
 117 al-Ḥusayn ibn Diʿbil
 118 Abū Hiffān
 119 Yaʿqūb the Date Seller (al-Tammār)
 120 al-Ukhayṭil Barqūqā
 121 al-Qiṣāfī ʿAmr
 122 Abū l-ʿAynāʾ
 123 Aḥmad ibn Abī Ṭāhir
 124 al-Baṣrī Abū Ḥafṣ
 125 al-Nāshiʾ
 126 Muḥammad ibn ʿArūs al-Shīrāzī
 127 ʿInān, the slave girl of al-Nāṭifī
 128 Sakan, the slave girl of Maḥmūd al-Warrāq
 129 ʿĀʾishah al-ʿUthmāniyyah
 130 Khansāʾ, the slave girl of Hishām the Blind (al-Makfūf)
 131 ʿArīb, the slave girl of al-Maʾmūn
 132 Faḍl the Poet (al-Shāʿirah)

Bibliography
Index of Persons, Tribes, Nations, and Dynasties
Index of Place Names
Index of Selected Terms and Subjects

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