al-Ḥanafī, Aḥmad b. Abī Bakr - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Hämeen-Anttila, Jaakko
Leiden
Brill
(486 words)
Aḥmad b. Abī Bakr al-Ḥanafī (d. late sixth/twelfth century) was a Syrian author known only for his innovative maqāma s, brief stories written in rhymed prose. Little is known about his life, and he is confused in several sources with various other authors (Hämeen-Anttila, 190-205, and 380, no. 54; Stewart). His only known work is a collection of thirty maqāmas dedicated to Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad al-Shahrazūrī, the qāḍī of Aleppo (d. 586/1190), and probably written in 573-5/1178-9. He may also have