A History of Arabic LiteratureD. Appleton, 1903 - 478 pages |
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... became an excellent horseman ; and , from the fourth century of our era , Saracen cavalry makes its appearance . The Thamûdites , an Arab tribe , numbered fighting men . who brandished lances , and rode that pachyderm whose conquest was ...
... became an excellent horseman ; and , from the fourth century of our era , Saracen cavalry makes its appearance . The Thamûdites , an Arab tribe , numbered fighting men . who brandished lances , and rode that pachyderm whose conquest was ...
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... became a literary centre whence poetry radiated all over the Peninsula . The successor of the last - named King , Nu'mân Abû Qâbûs , grew angry with the poet , who had used too great freedom in some lines written to flatter the Queen ...
... became a literary centre whence poetry radiated all over the Peninsula . The successor of the last - named King , Nu'mân Abû Qâbûs , grew angry with the poet , who had used too great freedom in some lines written to flatter the Queen ...
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... became the property of his daughter , Ḥafṣa . During the wars in Armenia and Âdharbaijân , the soldiers from ' Irâq wrangled with those from Syria over the way in which the Koran should be read . Ḥudhaifa , their leader , laid the ...
... became the property of his daughter , Ḥafṣa . During the wars in Armenia and Âdharbaijân , the soldiers from ' Irâq wrangled with those from Syria over the way in which the Koran should be read . Ḥudhaifa , their leader , laid the ...
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... became a Moslem . But one of his heathen errors he always retained - an immoderate love of wine . This earned him some term of imprisonment at the hands of the leaders of the new religion , who allowed no trifling on the point . Finding ...
... became a Moslem . But one of his heathen errors he always retained - an immoderate love of wine . This earned him some term of imprisonment at the hands of the leaders of the new religion , who allowed no trifling on the point . Finding ...
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... became an Arab poet was Ismail ibn Yasâr , a client of an Arab tribe , and a partisan of the Zubairids . He accompanied ' Urwa , the son of Zubair , on his journey to the court of the Caliph Walid , and wrote an elegy on the death of ...
... became an Arab poet was Ismail ibn Yasâr , a client of an Arab tribe , and a partisan of the Zubairids . He accompanied ' Urwa , the son of Zubair , on his journey to the court of the Caliph Walid , and wrote an elegy on the death of ...
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