A History of Arabic LiteratureD. Appleton, 1903 - 478 pages |
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... Umar , who specially admired Zuhair's careful avoidance of any- thing " hûshî , " that is to say , unintelligible , in his lan- guage . There is a story - but probably a mere legend , like so many handed down from those ancient times ...
... Umar , who specially admired Zuhair's careful avoidance of any- thing " hûshî , " that is to say , unintelligible , in his lan- guage . There is a story - but probably a mere legend , like so many handed down from those ancient times ...
Page 40
... Umar , who had seen the end of many of these precious witnesses , ordered that every written text to be discovered should be collected , and confided this task to Zaid , who had acted as Mahomet's secretary . ' Umar , who supervised ...
... Umar , who had seen the end of many of these precious witnesses , ordered that every written text to be discovered should be collected , and confided this task to Zaid , who had acted as Mahomet's secretary . ' Umar , who supervised ...
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... Umar sent him away , at last , to the Abyssinian frontier , where he shortly died . He was a brave warrior , as he proved in the Persian war , at the battle of Qâdisiyya . We only possess some fragments of his Bacchic verse . Jarwal ibn ...
... Umar sent him away , at last , to the Abyssinian frontier , where he shortly died . He was a brave warrior , as he proved in the Persian war , at the battle of Qâdisiyya . We only possess some fragments of his Bacchic verse . Jarwal ibn ...
Page 45
... Umar was obliged to put in prison in the interest of public safety and the general peace . Other poets , like ABU DHU'AIB of the Hudhailite tribe , had taken service in the conquering army . He accompanied ' Abdallah ibn Sa'd into ...
... Umar was obliged to put in prison in the interest of public safety and the general peace . Other poets , like ABU DHU'AIB of the Hudhailite tribe , had taken service in the conquering army . He accompanied ' Abdallah ibn Sa'd into ...
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... UMAR IBN ABÎ RABÎ'A was of the tribe of Quraish , to which Mahomet belonged , but which had not hitherto produced any poet . His father was a merchant , who had been sent by the Prophet to rule one of the southern pro- vinces of the ...
... UMAR IBN ABÎ RABÎ'A was of the tribe of Quraish , to which Mahomet belonged , but which had not hitherto produced any poet . His father was a merchant , who had been sent by the Prophet to rule one of the southern pro- vinces of the ...
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