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بديع الزمان الهمذاني

بديع الزمان الهمذاني

c. August 1008 CE · 11 Jumada II 398 AH

Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani, inventor of the maqama — his letters are proverbial ('a guest's company palls when his stay runs long'); he died at Herat in 398, poisoned or, as trustworthy men told, buried too hastily after apoplexy and found in his grave clutching his beard 1.

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Roles
writer · Poet
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Jabbar al-Hamadhani · Abd al-Malik Ibn Attash · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · Abdallah ibn Yasin al-Jazuli

Overview

Abu al-Fadl Ahmad ibn al-Husayn, known as Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani, author of the "Maqamat" and of letters. "Shadharat al-Dhahab" describes him as eloquent and an excellent poet, and says that al-Hariri followed him in his maqamat. 2

He died in Herat on Friday, the eleventh of Jumada al-Akhira 398 AH. The report says that he was poisoned, and it is also said that he was struck by a stroke and buried quickly. 2

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 158-159
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p.158-159
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islam.museum contributors. “بديع الزمان الهمذاني”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/badi-al-zaman-al-hamadhani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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