Khalil al-Muradi explained
| Khalil al-Muradi |
| Birth Place: | Damascus, Ottoman Empire |
| Death Date: | 1791 |
| Occupation: | Historian, Hanafi Mufti, Naqib al-Ashraf |
| Notable Works: | Silk al-durar |
| Era: | Ottoman Empire |
| Main Interests: | Biographical dictionaries |
Abu'l-Mawadda Sayyid Muhammad Khalil al-Muradi (died 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.[1]
Editions
- Khalīl b. ʿAlī al-Murādī. Kitāb Silk al-durar fī aʿyān al-qarn al-thānī ʿashar. Būlāq: Al-Maṭbaʻah al-ʻĀmirah, 1874-83.
- Muḥammad Khalīl b. ʿAlī al-Murādī. Kitāb Silk al-durar fī aʿyān al-qarn al-thānī ʿashar. Ed. Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Qādir Shāhīn, 4 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyyah, 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-Murādī included in his entry for his uncle Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Murādī, 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; .
Notes and References
- "al-Murādī." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill Online, 2012. 10 October 2012
