Other works on prosody are...

Other works on prosody are: Kitab al–'Arud wa al–Qawafi by the previously–mentioned Muhammad ibn Ahmad al–Wazir, Kitab al–Kafi fi Ilm al–'Arud wa al–Qawafi and Kitab Nazm al–'Arud both of which were written by Sayyid Abu al–Ridha’ Fadlallah al–Rawandi, may Allah be pleased with him , who was living in the year 548. Al–Darajat al–Rafi’ah contains a good biographical account of him.

Another work on prosody is Risalah al–'Arud wa al–Qawafi , a book written by the poet al–Hakim al–Anwari who died in the year in which the Abbasid dynasty fell. Kitab al–Arud by Malik al–Nuhat, the author of Al–Umdah fi al–Nahw which is mentioned in Kashf al–Zunun which declares that he was a Shi'ah. We shall talk more about him in the section on the leading grammarians.

The books Al–Iklil al–Taji*,* Qurrat ‘Ayn al–Khalil (which is a commentary on Ibn al–Hajib’s Al–Nazm al–Jalil*)* and a commentary on Sadr al–Din al–Sawi’s Qasidah were written by Sheikh Taqiy al–Din al–Hasan ibn Ali ibn Dawud al–Hilli, the author of Kitab al–Rijal . He is popularly known as Ibn Dawud, the student of Sayyid ibn Tawus, both of…