Hariri, Arabic philologist and poet of the 11th century, born at Bassorah; celebrated far and wide as the author of “Makameat,” a collection of tales in verse, the central figure in which is one Abu Seid, a clever and amusing production, and evincing a unique mastery of Arabic.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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