A History of Arabic LiteratureD. Appleton, 1903 - 478 pages |
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... given his share , the portion of the bravest . Satire was his weapon , wounding , tormenting , like the sharpest blade , driving the peoples to fall upon each other . But at the same time it was an incantation , threatening the foe ...
... given his share , the portion of the bravest . Satire was his weapon , wounding , tormenting , like the sharpest blade , driving the peoples to fall upon each other . But at the same time it was an incantation , threatening the foe ...
Page 10
... given them at a much later date by Hammâd - al - Râwiya , and on which is founded the abso- lutely untrue legend that these pieces , written with golden ink , were hung up in the famous Temple at Mecca , in the Ka'ba . The name was ...
... given them at a much later date by Hammâd - al - Râwiya , and on which is founded the abso- lutely untrue legend that these pieces , written with golden ink , were hung up in the famous Temple at Mecca , in the Ka'ba . The name was ...
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... given him on account of his having used the expression halhaltu , in one of his lines , to denote " I made an echo . " Only a very small number of his verses are extant . NABIGHA DHUBYÂNÎ , who belonged to a tribe from the neighbourhood ...
... given him on account of his having used the expression halhaltu , in one of his lines , to denote " I made an echo . " Only a very small number of his verses are extant . NABIGHA DHUBYÂNÎ , who belonged to a tribe from the neighbourhood ...
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... given us fine translations . Doubt has been felt as to whether the famous poem was really written by Shanfarâ , and it has been pointed out that the ancient Arab philologists were not aware of its existence . But if Shanfarâ was not the ...
... given us fine translations . Doubt has been felt as to whether the famous poem was really written by Shanfarâ , and it has been pointed out that the ancient Arab philologists were not aware of its existence . But if Shanfarâ was not the ...
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... given her her freedom , and married her . Ten years later , her family bought her back , snatching ' Urwa's consent in a moment of drunken- ness . Salma left him , extolling his generosity and valour ; but she had never learnt to endure ...
... given her her freedom , and married her . Ten years later , her family bought her back , snatching ' Urwa's consent in a moment of drunken- ness . Salma left him , extolling his generosity and valour ; but she had never learnt to endure ...
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