Khalil al-Muradi

Abu'l-Mawadda Sayyid Muhammad Khalil al-Muradi (1760—1791) was an Arab Muslim historian under the Ottoman Empire. He was born into a family of ulema and acted as Hanafi mufti and naqib al-ashraf (head of the Prophet's descendants) in Damascus. He wrote a set of over 1,000 biographies of people of his time, entitled Silk al-durar.

Editions

• KhalÄ«l b. Ê¿AlÄ« al-MurādÄ«. Kitāb Silk al-durar fÄ« aÊ¿yān al-qarn al-thānÄ« Ê¿ashar. BÅ«lāq: Al-Maá¹­baÊ»ah al-ʻĀmirah, 1874-83.
• Muḥammad KhalÄ«l b. Ê¿AlÄ« al-MurādÄ«. Kitāb Silk al-durar fÄ« aÊ¿yān al-qarn al-thānÄ« Ê¿ashar. Ed. Muḥammad Ê¿Abd al-Qādir ShāhÄ«n, 4 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-Ê¿Ilmiyyah, 1997.
• A sequence of twenty-nine mostly two-line maqāṭīʿ poems ending in the hemistich 'sweeter even than the juice of myrtle berries', which al-MurādÄ« included in his entry for his uncle IbrāhÄ«m ibn Muḥammad al-MurādÄ«, is edited and translated by Adam Talib, How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic? Literary History at the Limits of Comparison, Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, 40 (Leiden: Brill, 2018), pp. 94–115; .

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