Sharh al-Maqamat al-Haririyah. TWO VOLUMES IN ONE. شرح المقامات الحريرية

Abi al-‘Abbas al-Sharishi (1181-1222) was primarily a scholar of the Arabic language, and his commentary on the Maqamat al-Hariri, the famous and influential treatise, “is undoubtedly the most complete and the most famous”of many major commentaries on al- Hariri’s work”.
Al-Sharishi was a student of the great traveller, Ibn Jubayr. Al-Naboulsi, in his book al-Haqiqah wa-al-Majaz fi Rihlat Bilad al-Sham wa Misr wa-al-Hijaz, mentions that he sat down with Ahmad Afandi ibn Barri and ‘He showed me the Rihla by Sharishi providing explanation of Maqamat al- Hariri, in which he passed through Baghdad and attended a sermon of Abu-L-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi. Then he went to Damascus in Syria and to the two sanctuaries. We found the manuscript in the scripts of my father the late Isma’il Afandi Ibn al-Nabulsi. I took it and read it for some days and then returned it to him”. [The Heritage of the Arabo-Islamic learning, p. 337].