出版社：Middle East Documentation Center (MEDOC), University of Chicago
摘要：If anyone in our century tried to equal Ibn Nubātah in poetry, prose, or handwriting, he would attempt something impossible and aspire to something that will in no way occur.” 1 These are the words of the scholar Tāj al-Dīn al-Subkī, who was well acquainted with Ibn Nubātah. The historian Ibn Ḥabīb, another acquaintance of his, sums up Ibn Nubātah’s accomplishments as follows: wa-bi-al-jumlah fa-kāna uʿjūbat al-zamān wa-nādirat al-waqt wa-farīd al-awān “On the whole, he was the wonder of the era, the prodigy of this time, the solitaire of the age.” 2 The hadith scholar Walī al-Dīn Ibn al-ʿIrāqī boasted of Ibn Nubātah a generation later: “Ibn Nubātah distinguished himself in the field of adab and reached in it everything that can be desired; he surpassed his contemporaries, transcended the people of his epoch, and ended up peerless and as the solitary leader in the field. His poetry reached the acme of perfection, and I do not think that the whole eighth century produced sweeter poetry than his.” 3
