Al-Ṣafadī

Khalīl b. Aybak al-Ṣafadī (around 1296 to 23 July 1363, born in Safad) was a Turkic[1] Mamluk author and historian. One of his most famous works, Ikhtirāʿ al-Khurāʿ ("Invention of Absurdity") pokes fun at scholastic pedantry, fitting into a long, glorious history of Arabic parodies.[2] He also wrote a biographical dictionary called كتاب الوافي بالوفيات (Kitab Al-Wafi Bi-Al-Wafayat).[3] In his biographies of the blind (Nakt al-Humyān fī Nukat al-Umyān), al-Ṣafadī discusses the causes of blindness.[4]

Notes

The Internet Archive hosts a copy of كتاب الوافي بالوفيات (Kitab Al-Wafi Bi-Al-Wafayat) at https://archive.org/details/FP49931.

References

  1. ↑ F., Rosenthal,. "al-Ṣafadī".
  2. ↑ Tuttle, Kelly (2013). "Play and display: al-Ṣafadī's Invention of Absurdity". Postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies. 4 (3): 364–378. doi:10.1057/pmed.2013.22.
  3. ↑ Rowson, E.K. (2009). Essays in Arabic Literary Biography. Weisbaden: Harrassowitz-Verlag. pp. 341–357.
  4. ↑ Saliba, George (1994). A History of Arabic Astronomy: Planetary Theories During the Golden Age of Islam. New York: New York University Press. pp. 35, 53, 61.



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