ABSTRACT
Viewing Ibn al-Rūmī’s madīḥ for ʿUbaydallāh b. ʿAbdallāh as a literary speech situation allows one to isolate the components of its dramaturgy, namely (a) the dramatis personae and their characterizations, especially the persona of the panegyrist, (b) the typology of the scenes, and (c) the articulation of an ethics of patronage.
