ABSTRACT
The relationship with ʿUbaydallāh b. ʿAbdallāh dominated Ibn al-Rūmī’s formative years and furnishes an ideal opportunity for studying poetic patronage. Some general remarks about the practice of panegyrics at the time precede a survey of the madīḥ dedicated, its textual sources, and its inventory of forms – the longest and most elaborate among them being the qaṣīda.
