Abū Abdallāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Mughallis

Abū Abdallāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Mughallis (أبو عبد الله الحسين بن أحمد المغلس) was a tenth-century CE poet. He flourished around 381 AH/991 CE,[1]:121 being associated with the court of Bahāʾ al-Dawla.[2] He is noted as one of the only known composers of Arabic riddles in the third century AH.[3]

Epithet

A few sources refer to Ibn al-Mughallis instead as al-Muflis ('the bankrupt'), but this is due to scribal confusion of the Arabic letters غ and ف: in medial position these look similar, and short vowels are not written, so that المغلس 'al-Mughallis' was miscopied as المفلس 'al-muflis'.[1]:121 fn. 90

The epithet has been thought to suggest that al-Mughallis originated in the Azerbaijani town of Maragheh,[4] but has more recently been glossed to mean 'the one who tarries'.[5]

Works

According to both the Beirut edition of 1983 and Radwan's critical edition of 1972, ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad Thaʻālibī's anthology Tatimma records ten riddles by al-Mughallis on the following themes: travel-supplies (السفرة), egg (الْبَيْضَة), preservation of a vegetable (بَاقِي البقل), wasp (الزنبور), scissors (المقراض), sword (السَّيْف), drainpipe (الْمِيزَاب), book (الْكتب), the image one sees in the mirror (صورته الَّتِي يَرَاهَا فِي الْمرْآة), and the bath (الْحمام).[6][7]

Primary sources
  • aṣ-Ṣafadī, Salah al-Dīn (2000), ʻAdnān al-Baḫīt, Muḥammạd (ed.), "Al-Wāfī bi-'l-wafayāt", Bibliotheca Islamica (in Arabic), Beirut: Dar Ehia al-Tourath al-Arabi, 29CS1 maint: ref=harv (link), vol. 12 p. 202 [no. 3555]
  • ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad Thaʻālibī, يتيمة الدهر في في محاسن أهلالعصر, ed. by Muḥammad Muḥyī al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd محمد محي الدين عبدالحميد, 4 vols (Cairo 1956), vol. 3 pp. 415–16.[8]
  • ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad Thaʻālibī, Tatimma:

References
  1. Bilāl Urfahʹlī, The Anthologist's Art: Abu Mansur al-Tha'alibi and his Yatimat al-dahr, Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, 37 (Leiden: Brill, 2016), ISBN 9789004316294
  2. Erez Naaman, Literature and the Islamic Court: Cultural life under al-Ṣāḥib Ibn ‘Abbād (London: Routledge, 2016), p. 161 n. 78.
  3. Carl Brockelmann, History of the Arabic Written Tradition Supplement Volume 1, trans. by Joep Lameer, Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, Volume 117/3 (Leiden: Brill, 2017), p. 88; ISBN 978-90-04-33462-5 [trans. from Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur].
  4. Ahmad Shawqi Radwan, 'Thaʿālibī's “Tatimmat al-Yatīmah”: A Critical Edition and a Study of the Author as Anthologist and Literary Critic' (unpublished PhD thesis, University of Manchester, 1972), p. 120.
  5. Gabriele vom Bruck, 'al-Kibsī family', in Encyclopaedia of Islam, ed. by Kate Fleet and others, 3rd edn. Consulted online on 10 April 2020. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_35602.
  6. ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad Thaʻālibī, Yatīmat al-dahr fī maḥāsin ahl al-ʻaṣr maʻ al-tatimma wa-l-fahāris (يتيمة الدهر في شعراء أهل العصر مع التتمة والفهارس), ed. by Mufīd Muḥammad Qumayḥah, 6 vols (Bayrūt: Dār al-Kutub al-ʻIlmīyah (دار الكتب العلمية), 1983), vol. 5 pp. 24-26 [al-Tatimma ch. 11].
  7. Ahmad Shawqi Radwan, 'Thaʿālibī's “Tatimmat al-Yatīmah”: A Critical Edition and a Study of the Author as Anthologist and Literary Critic' (unpublished PhD thesis, University of Manchester, 1972), pp. 67-69 [ch. 66].
  8. According to Bilāl Urfahʹlī, The Anthologist's Art: Abu Mansur al-Tha'alibi and his Yatimat al-dahr, Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, 37 (Leiden: Brill, 2016), p. 121 fn. 90; ISBN 9789004316294.
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