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HAMADHANI , in full ABU-L FApL AIIMAD IBN UL-IJUSAIN UL-HAMADHANI (9671007), Arabian writer, known as Badi' uz-Zaman (the wonder of the age), was born and educated at Hamadhan. In 990 he went to Jorjan, where he remained two years; then passing to Nishapur, where he rivalled and surpassed the learned Khwarizmi. After journeying through Khorasan and Sijistan, he finally settled in Herat under the protection
sultan . There he died at the age of forty
prose
section " Belles Lettres ").His letters were published at Constantinople (1881), and with commentary at Beirut (1890) ; his magamas at Constantinople (1881), and with commentary at Beirut (1889). A good idea of thelatter may be obtained from S. de Sacy's edition of six of the magamas with French translation
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