Ibn al-Sharīf Dartarkhwān al-‘Ādhilī
‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Riḍā ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Musāwī al-Ṭūsī, also known as Ibn al-Sharīf Dartarkhwān al-‘Ādhilī, was a poet. He is noted as the author of the Alf jāriyah wa-jāriyah, which survives in one manuscript of 255 folios, now in the Austrian National Library. The work seems to have been a sequel to the same author's Alf ghulām wa-ghulām, now lost; Alf jāriyah wa-jāriyah comprises eight chapters of short poems in the epigrammatic form known as maqṭū‘.
| chapter | number of epigrams | subject matter |
| 1 | 250 | |
| 2 | 50 | |
| 3 | 100 | name-riddles |
| 4 | 100 | |
| 5 | 100 | |
| 6 | 211 | women from different cities |
| 7 | 45 | |
| 8 | 145 |
Examples
The following examples come from the sixth chapter of Alf jāriyah wa-jāriyah, in which each three-verse epigram celebrates the women of a different city of the Islamic world. This example is in the sarīʿ metre:This is in the wāfir metre:
Editions and translations
No edition of the whole work exists, but editions and translations of numerous poems or sections have been published by Jürgen W. Weil. The most prominent publication is his Mädchennamen — verrätselt. Hundert Rätsel-epigramme aus dem adab-Werk Alf ǧāriya wa-ǧāria , Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, 85,, which published chapter 3 of the work in transliterated Arabic and in German translation. Other editions and translations include:- Weil, J. W. and A. A. Ambros, 'Tausend und ein Mädchen: aus den Schätzen der österreichischen Nationalbibliothek', Bustan, 4, 22-28
- Weil, J. W., 'Einige Rätsel aus der arabischen schönen Literatur', Bustan, 2-3, 47–49.
- Weil, J. W., 'Epigramme auf Musikerinnen, 151–54.
- Weil, Jürgen W., , Der Islam: Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur des Islamischen Orients, 55, 99-101.
- Weil, J. W., and A. A. Ambros, '22 Rätsel-Epigramme aus der Gedichtsammlung Alf ǧāriya wa-ǧāriya', Orientalia hispanica: Festschrift F. M. Pareja, vol. 1, pp. 20–32.
- Weil, J. W., 'Alf ǧāriya wa-ǧāriya, sechstes Kapitel: Epigramme auf Mädchen aus Orten der muslimischen Geographie' parts 1 and 2 in Islam, part 3 in Rocznik Orientalistyczny.
- Jürgen W. Weil, , Rocznik orientalistyczny, 39, 137–41.
- Jürgen W. Weil, , Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 134, 269-73
- Weil, Jürgen W., , Archív Orientální, 52, 36–41.
- Weil, Jürgen W., , Der Islam: Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur des Islamischen Orients, 61 , 319.
- Weil, Jürgen W., , Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 82 , 445–48.