Excerpt from Six Assemblies: Or, Ingenious Conversations of Learned Men Among the Arabians

Six Ajjemblles here offered to the Public, are part of thofe fifty which were written in Arabic by Hariri of Barfa, a city in the kingdom of Babylon. His name at large is by the Arabians thus diftinguimed, Abu Mohammed Alkafim Ebn All Ebn Mohammed Ebn Othman Al-Bafri Al-Hariri: or, more limply, Ebno-1 Hariri: Tiefon of a filk-merchant. The time of his birth was in the year of Hegirah, i.e. Mahomets flight from Mecca to Medmali 446:of his death about 516, or A.D. 1122. Ajfemblies in Arabic are called makamaton, viz. fejjionsy or meetings:, fuch particularly as were appointed by learned men to examine and difcourfe on ufeful and edifying fubjecls. To each tract the Author afcribes a name, taken from a remarkable place or city where you are to fuppofe the difcourfe was held. For inftance, that which hath the title of Sananenjis, intimates that it was the fubjedl of a friendly fociety at Sanaa in Arabia Felix. This Affembly with feveral others is opened under the feigned name of Harith, the fon of Hemmam. The former Cgnifying an induflrious man: the latter, one who is curious in obferving other peoples conduct of life. The province affigned to this perfon, is, to entertain you with the remarks he had made in the places through which he travelled, defcribing them in an elegant manner, and in fuch language as mews him to be a mafter of thofe talents which are the ornament of a polite fcholar.

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