Iraq/Arabia: Abu Zayd conversing with the Governor of Rahba in Yemen. Miniature by Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti (fl. 13th century), 1237 CE. Yahyâ ibn Mahmûd al-Wâsitî was a 13th-century Arab Islamic artist. Al-Wasiti was born in Wasit in southern Iraq. He was noted for his illustrations of the Maqam of al-Hariri. Maqāma (literally 'assemblies') are an (originally) Arabic literary genre of rhymed prose with intervals of poetry in which rhetorical extravagance is conspicuous. The 10th century author Badī' al-Zaman al-Hamadhāni is said to have invented the form.

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