Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, Volume 4Oriental translation fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1871 |
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... possessed every merit which could give illus . tration to a doctor of the law , to a magistrate and to a man of letters . His exterior was highly preposessing , his contenance handsome and his manners engaging . We may , perhaps , form ...
... possessed every merit which could give illus . tration to a doctor of the law , to a magistrate and to a man of letters . His exterior was highly preposessing , his contenance handsome and his manners engaging . We may , perhaps , form ...
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... possession of a hyacinth ( yakūt ) ; O that she had it already to adorn her ! Who will come to her aid , so that the perfume of Amīn ad- Dīn's presence may float around her ? that alone would suffice for her pre - eminence . Had she a ...
... possession of a hyacinth ( yakūt ) ; O that she had it already to adorn her ! Who will come to her aid , so that the perfume of Amīn ad- Dīn's presence may float around her ? that alone would suffice for her pre - eminence . Had she a ...
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... possession ; this was at Damascus , in the year 667 ( A.D. 1268-9 ) ; the book is a small one , containing only ten quires ( two hundred pages ) .— I read in a historical work of those latter times , that Abū ' d- Durr ( Yakūt ) was ...
... possession ; this was at Damascus , in the year 667 ( A.D. 1268-9 ) ; the book is a small one , containing only ten quires ( two hundred pages ) .— I read in a historical work of those latter times , that Abū ' d- Durr ( Yakūt ) was ...
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... possessed means , to the exclusion of the indigent and the way - worn travel- ler . All of them obtain ( from you ) a meed sufficient to fortify them , a portion adequate to their wants and on which they counted . The grandees have ...
... possessed means , to the exclusion of the indigent and the way - worn travel- ler . All of them obtain ( from you ) a meed sufficient to fortify them , a portion adequate to their wants and on which they counted . The grandees have ...
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... possessed by the author . Its style , though laboured and excessively affected , is by no means remarkable for ... possessions to another people ; so says the Korān ; but our author remarks that God did not leave those of the ...
... possessed by the author . Its style , though laboured and excessively affected , is by no means remarkable for ... possessions to another people ; so says the Korān ; but our author remarks that God did not leave those of the ...
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