Badiʿ al-Zaman al-Hamadhani (Ahmad ibn al-Husayn)

بديع الزمان الهمذاني (أحمد بن الحسين)

Notable figure 358–398 AH / 968–1008 CE · Source: TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, «BEDÎÜZZAMAN el-HEMEDÂNλ (born 358/968–69 in Hamadan; d. 398/1008; Maḳāmât, Resâʾil)

Affiliation

Prose writer; pioneer of the maqama genre in Arabic

Biography

Born in Hamadan, he studied with Ibn Faris. He is famous for his Maqamat, the earliest examples of the maqama genre in Arabic prose, and also left a collection of letters (Rasaʾil); his prose won him more renown than his poetry.