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... Arabic historians filled their pages with extracts drawn from it as from a pure and abundant source , -if rhetoricians , grammarians , and compilers of anecdotes have culled from it the choicest passages , if learned men essayed to ...
... Arabic historians filled their pages with extracts drawn from it as from a pure and abundant source , -if rhetoricians , grammarians , and compilers of anecdotes have culled from it the choicest passages , if learned men essayed to ...
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... Arabic literature , and that it furnished many facts of the utmost importance for general history , and not to be found in any other writer . A natural transition led me from the work to the author , and in my endeavours to attain a ...
... Arabic literature , and that it furnished many facts of the utmost importance for general history , and not to be found in any other writer . A natural transition led me from the work to the author , and in my endeavours to attain a ...
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... Arabic literature , and frequently occurring in the course of these volumes , may be clearly understood . The points intended to be elucidated are the manner in which learning was developed by the influence of Islamism , the distinction ...
... Arabic literature , and frequently occurring in the course of these volumes , may be clearly understood . The points intended to be elucidated are the manner in which learning was developed by the influence of Islamism , the distinction ...
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... Arabic poetry . The old rajaz verses were consi- dered by Arabic philologers and grammarians as of the highest importance for their favourite study , on ac- count of the rare words , expressions , and constructions with which they ...
... Arabic poetry . The old rajaz verses were consi- dered by Arabic philologers and grammarians as of the highest importance for their favourite study , on ac- count of the rare words , expressions , and constructions with which they ...
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... Arabic nation had already attained ( 1 ) . The superior merit of this early literature was ever afterwards acknowledged by the Arabs themselves ; it furnished them not only with models but ideas for their poetical productions ; and its ...
... Arabic nation had already attained ( 1 ) . The superior merit of this early literature was ever afterwards acknowledged by the Arabs themselves ; it furnished them not only with models but ideas for their poetical productions ; and its ...
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Abbasides Abd al-Malik Abd Allah Ibn Abû Abu Bakr Abû Ishak ad-Dawlat Ak Sunkur al-Hajjaj al-Hasan Ibn al-Husain al-Mahdi al-Mâmûn al-Mansûr al-Mutanabbi Aleppo anecdote ar-Rashid as-Shâfi at-Tabari Baghdad Basra called celebrated composed Damascus death descended died A. H. doctor Egypt eminent emir father favour following verses given grammarian Hajji Khalifa honour Ibn Abd Allah Ibn Ahmad Ibn Ibn al-Athir Ibn Ali Ibn Ibn Khallikân Ibn Muhammad Ibn Ibrahim Ibn imam Irak Islamism Jaafar Jumâda jurisconsult jurisprudence kâdi kasida katib Khâlid khalif Khorasan Kitab Koran Kufa l-Kasim learned Literally Mâlik master Mekka mentioned Moawia month Moslim mosque Mosul Muharram Nasr native Obaid Allah Omar person poem poet poetry possessed prince replied Saad Sacy's says sect shaikh Shawar Sulaiman sultan surnamed Syria talent thee thou took Traditionists Traditions treatise tribe vizir word Yahya Yazid Zaid بن
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Page 502 - From the moment when you set it before us as a duty to hand ourselves over to our lords on such and such a day, at such and such an hour, at a date and a minute fixed beforehand.
Page xxii - Muham- ^ madan history were transmitted during the first centuries by oral tradition from one h&fiz to another, and these persons made it an object of their particular care not to alter, in the least degree, the narrations which they had received.
Page xxxvi - ... the languor of the eyes. Pearls signify both tears and teeth, the latter are sometimes called hailstones, from their whiteness and moisture ; the lips are cornelians or rubies ; the gums a pomegranate flower; the dark foliage of the myrtle is synonymous with the black hair of the beloved, or with the first down which appears on the cheeks of youths at the period of puberty. The down itself is called the i;ar or head-stall of the bridle, and the curve of the izur is compared to the letters /am...
Page xxxvii - ... and day ; black hair is night ; the waist is a willowbranch or a lance ; the water of the face is self-respect ; a poet sells the water of his face when he bestows mercenary praises on a rich patron devoid of every noble quality.
Page 470 - I can recite to you, for each letter of the alphabet, one hundred long poems rhyming in that letter, without taking into count the short pieces, and all that composed exclusively by poets who lived before the promulgation of Islamism.
Page 113 - When water has long remained at rest, its noxious qualities appear; and when its surface has continued tranquil, its foulness gets into motion : thns it is with a guest; his presence is displeasing when his stay has been protracted ; and his shadow is oppressive when the time for which he should sojourn is at an end. Adieu.
Page 113 - Ka'ba of pilgrims ; the station of honour, not to say the station of sanctity — to him let this be a consolation : Death is awful till it comes, and then it is found light. Its touch seems grating till felt, and then it is smooth. The world is so hostile, and its injustice so great, that death is the lightest of its inflictions, the least of its wrongs. Look, then, to the right. Do you see aught but affliction ? Look to the left. Do you see aught but woe...
Page 269 - God be merciful to Abu Nuwas (6) ! one would think lhat he had seen this, " when he described the bubbles which cover the surface of wine when mixed ' ' with water : ' The little bubbles and the great resemble a gravel of pearls upon a ground of gold.
Page 18 - Shaklah1 and his gang raised tumults in Iraq : then every fool and villain flew to join him ! Were Ibrahim fit to reign, the empire had devolved by right to Muharik, to Zulzul, and to Marik ! Must it be ? but no ! 'tis impossible (mumtani) ! Must the patrimony (mal mawruth) pass from one reprobate to another ? " Muluarik , Zulzul, and Marik, the persons mentioned in the foregoing lines, were public singers at the time.
Page 32 - Here is another : Black misbecomes you not ; by it you are increased in beauty ; black is the only colour princes wear. Were you not mine, I should purchase you with all my wealth. Did I not possess you, I should give my life to obtain...