Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, Volume 1Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1843 - 616 pages |
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... kasida of great merit , written in the mystical style pecu- liar to the Sufis . We shall give it here ( 1 ) : me . The light of their fire glimmered ( from afar ) , and already the night had darkened ( around us ) ; the weary camel ...
... kasida of great merit , written in the mystical style pecu- liar to the Sufis . We shall give it here ( 1 ) : me . The light of their fire glimmered ( from afar ) , and already the night had darkened ( around us ) ; the weary camel ...
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... kasīda on account of its rarity and because it is in high request . It is related by a ( Sūfi ) shaikh that he had a ... kasida ) ; " and this is the one which was meant . - The following distich was given by Majd al - Arab ( glory of ...
... kasīda on account of its rarity and because it is in high request . It is related by a ( Sūfi ) shaikh that he had a ... kasida ) ; " and this is the one which was meant . - The following distich was given by Majd al - Arab ( glory of ...
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... kasida are borrowed from pastoral life : in the following piece they have a mystic import besides , as shall be here indicated . The light of their fire : the presence of the Divinity manifested to the saints . The night : moral ...
... kasida are borrowed from pastoral life : in the following piece they have a mystic import besides , as shall be here indicated . The light of their fire : the presence of the Divinity manifested to the saints . The night : moral ...
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... kasida of which each verse ends in the letter aīn ; it is in this poem that we find the following passage : I shall say to her ( 2 ) whom religious scruples prevented from replying to my salutation : " Why then didst thou shed my ...
... kasida of which each verse ends in the letter aīn ; it is in this poem that we find the following passage : I shall say to her ( 2 ) whom religious scruples prevented from replying to my salutation : " Why then didst thou shed my ...
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... kasida , and the author has displayed in them great originality . But a certain poet has said , in comparing the pen to an army ( 3 ) : A family who , when they seize their pens in anger and dip them in the ink of fate , inflict with ...
... kasida , and the author has displayed in them great originality . But a certain poet has said , in comparing the pen to an army ( 3 ) : A family who , when they seize their pens in anger and dip them in the ink of fate , inflict with ...
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| Title | Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, Volume 1 Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, Ibn-Ḫallikān Volume 57 of Oriental translation fund |
| Author | Ibn-Ḫallikān |
| Translated by | William MacGuckin 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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