A History of Arabic LiteratureD. Appleton, 1903 - 478 pages |
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... lived thing , and the memory of bygone days soon fades away . We must not wonder , then , that the most ancient of the Arab poems only go back to the sixth century of ourera , when Nabatean travellers brought the Estrangelo alphabet ...
... lived thing , and the memory of bygone days soon fades away . We must not wonder , then , that the most ancient of the Arab poems only go back to the sixth century of ourera , when Nabatean travellers brought the Estrangelo alphabet ...
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... lived in the eleventh century — and published by Ahlwardt ; the poems known as Mufaḍḍaliyyât , so called after Al - Mufaḍḍal al - Dabbî , who collected them into one volume for his pupil , Prince Al - Mahdî , in the eighth century - a ...
... lived in the eleventh century — and published by Ahlwardt ; the poems known as Mufaḍḍaliyyât , so called after Al - Mufaḍḍal al - Dabbî , who collected them into one volume for his pupil , Prince Al - Mahdî , in the eighth century - a ...
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... lived their lives and composed their works . In addition to these texts we should mention the poems of the Hudhailites - the tribe of Hudhail which dwelt to the south - east of Mecca , and which has left us poetry both of pre - Islamic ...
... lived their lives and composed their works . In addition to these texts we should mention the poems of the Hudhailites - the tribe of Hudhail which dwelt to the south - east of Mecca , and which has left us poetry both of pre - Islamic ...
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... lived at Yathrib , a town later called Medina , which name it bears at the present day . He made himself famous by his avenging pursuit of the murderers of his father and grandfather , and by the war he thus caused between the Aus and ...
... lived at Yathrib , a town later called Medina , which name it bears at the present day . He made himself famous by his avenging pursuit of the murderers of his father and grandfather , and by the war he thus caused between the Aus and ...
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... lived in the chief cities , and had converted certain tribal chieftains to their faith - and the Syrians and Mesopotamian Christians - whose propa- ganda had found a singularly useful supporter in such a poet as Umayya ibn Abî'l - Salt ...
... lived in the chief cities , and had converted certain tribal chieftains to their faith - and the Syrians and Mesopotamian Christians - whose propa- ganda had found a singularly useful supporter in such a poet as Umayya ibn Abî'l - Salt ...
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