Abu'l-Mawadda Sayyid Muhammad Khalil al-Muradi (died 1791) — was an
Arab Muslim historian under the
Ottoman Empire. He was born into a family of
ulema and acted as
Hanafimufti and naqib al-ashraf (head of the Prophet's descendants) in
Damascus. He wrote a set of over 1,000 biographies of people of his time, entitled Silk al-durar.[1]
A sequence of twenty-nine mostly two-line maqāṭīʿ poems ending in the hemistich 'sweeter even than the juice of myrtle berries', which al-Murādī included in his entry for his uncle
Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Murādī, is edited and translated by Adam Talib, How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic? Literary History at the Limits of Comparison, Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, 40 (Leiden: Brill, 2018), pp. 94–115;
ISBN978-90-04-34996-4.