The caption for this 1910 image reads: “Persians and Turks - a miniature from the Maqamat al-Hariri. Parisian handwriting.” Al-Hariri of Basra (1054 –1122) was an Arab poet, scholar of the Arabic language and a high government official of the Seljuks. He is best known for writing Maqamat al-Hariri (also known as The Assemblies of al-Hariri), consisting of 50 anecdotes written in stylized prose, which was once memorized by heart by scholars, and Mulhat al-i'rab fi al-nawh, an extensive poem on grammar.

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