A History of Arabic LiteratureD. Appleton, 1903 - 478 pages |
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... journeys , and weaving poems which cele- brated a few restricted subjects - the image of the best beloved , the remnants of a forsaken camp , or the struggles of some bloody feud . Not that his memories of the frays in which he had ...
... journeys , and weaving poems which cele- brated a few restricted subjects - the image of the best beloved , the remnants of a forsaken camp , or the struggles of some bloody feud . Not that his memories of the frays in which he had ...
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... journey . Sozomen , a Greek author , who wrote an ecclesiastical history in the fifth century , reports that in A.D. 372 Mania or Mavia , Queen of the Saracens , defeated the Roman troops in Palestine and Phoenicia , and that the memory ...
... journey . Sozomen , a Greek author , who wrote an ecclesiastical history in the fifth century , reports that in A.D. 372 Mania or Mavia , Queen of the Saracens , defeated the Roman troops in Palestine and Phoenicia , and that the memory ...
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Clément Huart. took fright , and fled into Syria . Tarafa continued his journey , and was buried alive as soon as he reached Baḥrain . It is curious to note that his poetry gives more proof of judgment than did his behaviour . He is ...
Clément Huart. took fright , and fled into Syria . Tarafa continued his journey , and was buried alive as soon as he reached Baḥrain . It is curious to note that his poetry gives more proof of judgment than did his behaviour . He is ...
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... journeys he was thrown from his camel and broke both his legs . He was tended by Fuḍâla ibn Kilda , who came and pitched his tent on the very spot where the poet lay , and by his daughter Halîma , and , in his gratitude , dedicated ...
... journeys he was thrown from his camel and broke both his legs . He was tended by Fuḍâla ibn Kilda , who came and pitched his tent on the very spot where the poet lay , and by his daughter Halîma , and , in his gratitude , dedicated ...
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... journey , towards the year 728. He was a determined supporter of the rights of the ' Alids , and the verses in which he acclaimed Zain al - ' Âbidîn , ' Ali's grandson , brought him to a dungeon . Ferazdaq was then a man of seventy ...
... journey , towards the year 728. He was a determined supporter of the rights of the ' Alids , and the verses in which he acclaimed Zain al - ' Âbidîn , ' Ali's grandson , brought him to a dungeon . Ferazdaq was then a man of seventy ...
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