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He was reputed to be the most learned man of his time in regard to the "days of the Arabs" (i.e. their chief battles), their stories, poems, genealogies and dialects. He is said to have boasted that he could recite a hundred long 'qasidas for each letter of the alphabet (i.e. rhyming in each letter)
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Monique Bernards, "Pioneers of Arabic Linguistic Studies." Taken from In the Shadow of Arabic: The Centrality of Language to Arabic Culture, pg. 213. Ed.
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and these all from pre-Islamic times, apart from shorter pieces and later verses. Hence his name Hammad ar-Rawiya, " the reciter of verses from memory."
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is said to have tested him, the result being that he recited 2900 gasidas of pre-Islamic date and Walid gave him 100,000 dirhems. He was favoured by
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of his is extant, though he composed verse of his own and probably a good deal of what he ascribed to earlier poets.
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Arabian critics, however, say that in spite of his learning he lacked a true insight into the genius of the
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The Abbasid Construction of the Jahiliyya: Cultural Authority in the Making
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Hammad was born in al-Kufah of a Daylami (Persian) prisoner of war (...)
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History of the Arabs from the earliest times to the present
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origin. The date of his birth is given by some as 694
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Kufa
Iraq
Baghdad
Arabic
Iranian
Kufa
Daylamite
AD
Arabic poetry
Umayyad
Walid
Yazid II
Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik
Iraq
Damascus
Arabic language
Qur'an
Mu'allaqat
diwan
ISBN
978-0-333-09871-4




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