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300 THOMAS BAUER form that was practiced by Shihäb al-Din. Though he mentions no titles, al-$afadi explicitly states that al-Shihäb is the author of 'many qasidas, rajaz poems, epigrams and dübayts:35 Finally, Ibn Fa41Alläh's relation to the dawädär that resulted from his position in the diwän al-inshä' and his place in the literary system of his period, as sketched above, make hirn the most likely candidate for the authorship of the urjüza. The most probable dates for its creation would be the years 727-729 and 732-733, when Shihäb al-Din acted as . a deputy for his aging father, the officialkätib al-sirrof Damascus. Shihäb al-Din Ibn Faq.l Alläh as a poet. In Western sources, the author to whom the muzdawija can be attributed is normally called 'Ibn Fa41Alläh al-'Umarf But there were more famous members of the Banü Fa41Alläh, including his father Mul}.yi 'l-Din and his younger brother 'Alä' al-Din. Therefore, it is appropriate to use no other form ofhis namerthan the form used in all contemporary sources, Shihäb al-Din (or al-Shihäb) Ibn Fa41Alläh. Today, Shihäb al- Dills manual on penmanship (al-Ta'rifbi 'l-Mu~talahal-Sharif) and his encyclopaedia Masälik al-Ab~ärare used as essential sources for the history of the period. But his contemporaries saw Shihäb al-Din principally as a man of letters, an author of poetry and prose literature. Paradoxically,his achievements in the field of literature are not even mentioned in the entry on hirn in the Encyclopediaof <strong>Arabic</strong> Literature.36For al- $afadi, however, mir author was the imäm ahl al-ädäb?7According to this statement, al-Shihäb Ibn Fa
THE DAWÄDÄR'S HUNTING PARTY 301 poetry, though there is a light reserve here. Whereas in prose nobody can ever attain his level, he says, in his poetry 'only single poets' (alafräd) can equal him.39Another contemporary, the scholar Täj al-DIn al-SubkI,leavesno doubt that Ibn Nubäta is unassailable both in poetry and prose.40But in another place he tries to promote Ibn Qä
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