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That prince had a daughter named al - Yākūta , of whom he was so fond that he could not bear to be separated from her a single instant . He therefore had her attired in the uniform of a page , so that she might accompany him when he ...
That prince had a daughter named al - Yākūta , of whom he was so fond that he could not bear to be separated from her a single instant . He therefore had her attired in the uniform of a page , so that she might accompany him when he ...
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My heart shall never know any love but that I bear her ! it is a love without beginning and without end ( 7 ) . Since thy rigours cannot be softened unless by the intercession of another , I renounce such love as requires a mediator .
My heart shall never know any love but that I bear her ! it is a love without beginning and without end ( 7 ) . Since thy rigours cannot be softened unless by the intercession of another , I renounce such love as requires a mediator .
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His treatise bears the title of al - Iktidab fi sharh Adab al - Kuttāb ( Extemporizing , being a commentary on the Guide for Kātibs ) , and is a proof of the extensive information possessed by its author . -Kutaiba is the diminutive of ...
His treatise bears the title of al - Iktidab fi sharh Adab al - Kuttāb ( Extemporizing , being a commentary on the Guide for Kātibs ) , and is a proof of the extensive information possessed by its author . -Kutaiba is the diminutive of ...
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If grinning be the result of legal knowledge , how excellent a jurisconsult is the bear of the desert ! He died in the city of Bokhara , A. H. 430 ( A. D. 1038-9 ) .- Dabūsi is derived from Dabasiya , the name of a town between Bokhara ...
If grinning be the result of legal knowledge , how excellent a jurisconsult is the bear of the desert ! He died in the city of Bokhara , A. H. 430 ( A. D. 1038-9 ) .- Dabūsi is derived from Dabasiya , the name of a town between Bokhara ...
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Were the love I bear them to deprive me of existence , the perfume of that love would yet remain ! I am like the taper , useful to those around it , but consuming itself away . I never went to meet thee , Laila ! without feeling as if ...
Were the love I bear them to deprive me of existence , the perfume of that love would yet remain ! I am like the taper , useful to those around it , but consuming itself away . I never went to meet thee , Laila ! without feeling as if ...
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| Title | Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, Volume 2 Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, Ibn Khallikān Volume 57 of Oriental Translation Fund Volume 57 of Publications (Oriental translation fund) |
| Author | Ibn Khallikān |
| Translated by | William MacGuckin baron de Slane |
| Publisher | Oriental translation fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1843 |
| Original from | Barcelona Athenaeum Library |
| Digitized | 21 Jan 2010 |
| Length | 616 pages |
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