* weak.

Asked if he’d tried it, he said: “I also wrote about suicide and never thought about trying that.” The isnad is wear tho.

He was, so the lore goes, asked about whether he had done any hands on research for this book.

The poet had a large library, much of it he had copied himself. In the floods in Baghdad in 1172, his books were damaged by the water and the detritus of the nearby tannery — and he became blind in his chemical attempts to repair them and stop them from smelling horribly.

It's part of a pair of articles that were originally one too-long article. The other was originally the final section of "Rethinking Poetry" and puts the argument more succinctly: "Adab without the Crusades." It's about how solidarity was imagined. t.co/IXZ4COs28a

It is my attempt to rethink both the content of Zengid-Ayyubid poetry and how it circulated. It takes examples of poetry from the massive adab anthology of Saladin's secretary ʿImād al-Dīn al-Iṣfahānī. And it's not all about asceticism and jihad. t.co/28i0h05tqn

And yes, there are both reading and audition notes in the MS - so samāʿāt is a bit misleading. :)

وصحح ذلك ….؟ بمسجده المعروف بدار الليف؟؟ بشارع نهر الزندبرد؟ بشرق باب الازج في مدينة السلام
كتبه عبد اللطيف علي بن النفيس بن بوزندان {بوزنداز} السلامي الحنبلي عفى الله عنه والحمد لله رب العالمين

قرات جميعه على الشيخ الإمام العالم ركن الدين ابي اسحاق ابراهيم بن محمود بن سالم بن مهدي عُرف بابن الخيّر
المقرئ بسماعه في الأصل من شهدة عن المصنف ومنه كانت القراءة وعورض بهذه النسخة فسمعه
ولده الشيخ العالم سديد الدين ابو محمد اسماعيل وصحح ذلك يوم الأحد سادس جمادى الآخرة من سنة سبع عشرة وستمائة