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292 THOMAS BAUER periods, whereas the two preceding centuries, more or less coinciding with the period of the so-called 'Sunni revival: constitute a crisis within hunting poetry, if not of <strong>Arabic</strong> poetry in general. But this situation changed fundamentally after the Ayrubids and. Mamluks had establi~hed a stable rule over Syria and Egypt, where the civilian elite had thus appropriated the literary culture of the Abbasid kuttäb and where countless madrasas provided for a mass education that made it possible .for popular literature to thrive with a hitherto unknown intensity. This development also brought about a new (last?) blossoming of <strong>Arabic</strong> hunting literature, which may have been initiated by the Ayrubid dynasty itself,3but reached its apogee a few decades later. During the short period examined here, the end of the seventh/thirteenth and the first half of the eighth/fourteenth century, a considerable number of texts on hunting were produced, covering all forms oE. the tardiyya known so far and even forms hardly used for this purpose before. Especially remarkable is the great number of prose text in the form of a risäla 'epistle: either called risä14tardiyya or ~aydiyya'hunt- ( ing epistle' or, with a .more specificsubject) risälabunduqiyya 'epistle on hunting (birds) with the crossbow:Thehunting risiilareached the height of its popularity in the Mamluk period, but it had been created much earlier. The earliest hunting epistle known so far is by 'Abd al-I:Iamid al-Kätib (d. after 132/750).4Later)epistles of this kind were written by Ibrähim b. Hiläl al-$äbi' (313-384/925-994)5 and Hiläl b. al-Mul;1assin al-$äbi' (359-448/969-1056).6 Another author of a risiila bunduqiyya from Ayrubid times is ]?iyä' al-Din Ibn al-A~ir (558-637/1163-1239).7 Further texts are mentioned by Hämeen -Anttila. 8 The following literary hunting texts date from the second half of the seventh and the first half of the eighth century: 3 .A chapter of tardiyyät comprising two qasidas can be found among the poetry of the Ayyubid Sultan al-Malik al-Nä~ir $aläl).al-Din Däwüd (603-657/1205-1259), see 'Abd al-l:Iasanayn al-Kha
THE DAWÄDÄR'S HUNTING PARTY 293 1. Siräj al-Din al-Warräq (615-695/1218-1296): A muzdawija tardiyya.9 2. Mulfyi 'I-Dm Ibn 'Abd al-Zähir (620~692/1223-1292): A risäla ~aydiyya. 10 . 3. Kamäl al-Din Ibn al-'Attär (626-702/1228 or 1229-1303): A risäla bunduqiyya.11 4. Shihäb al-Din Malfmüd (644-725/1246-1325): A long and famous risäla bunduqiyya12 and a risäla tardiyya.13 ., 5. Shihäb al-Dm Mulfammad Ibn al-~ä'igh (645-ca. 722/1247-ca. 1322): A risälabunduqiyyaand a mukhammasa on the samesubject, addressed t€>~alälf al-Din b. Mulfyi 'I-Dm Ibn Fa
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