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- Publisher
- de Gruyter
- Copyright
- © 2017 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
- ISSN
- 0004-4717
- eISSN
- 2235-5871
- DOI
- 10.1515/asia-2016-0018
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Abstract:The poet known by the moniker Sumayka (“little fish”) is arguably one of the most bad-mouthed poets of the eighth/fifteenth century. At least this is the impression one gets when reading the zajal and several epigrams about him by Ibrāhīm al-Miʿmār, the distinguished zajjāl and author of epigrams from Cairo. As his foe Sumayka, al-Miʿmār died in the plague of 749/1348. This paper introduces Sumayka as a minor poet of the Mamluk times who made his way into some bio-bibliographies and historiographic works of his time and got famous especially for his defamatory verses. It includes his complete works of which there are only a few and all the poems that Ibrāhīm al-Miʿmār, his favorite enemy, wrote on or rather against him.
Journal
Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques – de Gruyter
Published: Mar 1, 2017