al-Fākhūrī, Arsānyūs - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Johnson, Rebecca C.
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Arsānyūs al-Fākhūrī (1800-83) was a Maronite cleric and qāḍī (judge) born in Baʿabdā in Mount Lebanon, known for composing badīʿiyyāt , works in a highly stylised poetic form that usually involves encomiums on the prophet Muḥammad, with each line of the poem illustrating a different rhetorical trope (badīʿ) ; al-Fākhūrī adapted the form to Christian religious themes. Born Fāris b. Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm, al-Fākhūrī, a family so named because his great-grandfather oversaw Beirut's pottery manufactories before moving to Baʿabdā, was educated at the seminary of ʿAyn