Title: A masterpiece Of Arab painting
Description: The 'Maqamat of al-Hariri' (d.516/122) is one of the best-known works of Arabic literature. Why and how did this impenetrable work of medieval Arabic philology and linguistic acrobatics dressed up as a collection of picaresque tales, become the vehicle for such extraordinarily lively, life-like and technically competent paintings? This book explores this question.
Subjects: Arab Illumination of books and manuscripts, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Maqāmāt (Ḥarīrī), Sacramentary (Gelasian sacramentary : Catholic Church)
People: Yaḥyá ibn Maḥmūd Wāsiṭī (active 13th century), Ḥarīrī (1054-1122)