| Book Title | Nabulusis Commentary On Ibn Al Farids Khamriyah Nabulusis Commentary On Ibn Al Farids Khamriyah |
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NABULUSI’S COMMENTARY ON IBN AL-FARID’S KHAMRIYAH by SHIGERU KAMADA
NABULUSI’S COMMENTARY ON IBN AL-FARID’S KHAMRIYAH
Book’s Introduction
Ibn al-Farid (d. 632/1235) is one of Islam’s most well-known mystical poets, and maybe the best in Arabic literature.
“(The odes of his Diwan) exhibit a style of great delicacy and beauty and more or less copious use of rhetorical artifices,” R. A. Nicholson says of his literary style.
Two entirely mystical poems, the Khamriyah and the Nazm al-suluk (also termed al-Ta’iyah al-kubra), are particularly well-known among his odes, and have spawned a slew of comments.
Two commentaries on Ibn al-Diwan Farid’s are well-known: al-Hasan al-Burini (d. 1024/1615) and ‘Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi (d. 1143/1731).
Here in this paper I would like to discuss how Nabulusi interprets Ibn al-Farid’s poems, and therefore it is not my primary purpose to discuss Ibn al-Farid’s poems themselves.
To deal with the whole commentary(2) is beyond the scope of this paper, and I, choosing the Khamriyah, would closely examine the way of Nabulusi’s interpretation of it.
I use Rushayyid b. al-Dahdah’s abridged version of Nabulusi’s commentary as well as the French translation by E. Dermenghem, which is based on a manuscript of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.(3)
His translation seems not to be a complete one, either.
However this is very helpful in order to make up for passages which are not found in Dahdah’s version.
Before starting an examination of the text of the commentary, I would like to trace the background of Nabulusi’s life, work, and personality and to describe the general characteristics of his commentary.
Nabulusi whose full name is ‘Abd al-Ghani b. Isma’il b. Ahmad b. Ibrahim al-Nabulusi(5) was born in Damascus in Dhu al-Hijiah 5,1050/March 19,1641.
His family had long been settled in Damascus and his great grand father was described by Muhibbi as “shaykh masha’ikh al-Sham.”(7) He belonged to the
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