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( 8 ) This is the prince whom Hamza al - Ispahāni mentions as the immediate predecessor of Zū Shanātir , the celebrated tyrant of Yemen , who was slain by Zū Nuwās . ( See Schulten's Historia Ioctanidarum , p . 37. ) ...
( 8 ) This is the prince whom Hamza al - Ispahāni mentions as the immediate predecessor of Zū Shanātir , the celebrated tyrant of Yemen , who was slain by Zū Nuwās . ( See Schulten's Historia Ioctanidarum , p . 37. ) ...
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Well , ' said the prince , is not the author " of such verses worthy of the first rank ? ' - ' He is , my lord . ' " - I must ob- serve that this anecdote is in contradiction with what we shall say farther on , in the life of al - Kisąi ...
Well , ' said the prince , is not the author " of such verses worthy of the first rank ? ' - ' He is , my lord . ' " - I must ob- serve that this anecdote is in contradiction with what we shall say farther on , in the life of al - Kisąi ...
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... it was wholly in that prince's handwriting and , among other passages , it contained one relative to Sharaf ad - din's blindness and his opinion that the post of kādi could be lawfully filled by a blind man , although all the other ...
... it was wholly in that prince's handwriting and , among other passages , it contained one relative to Sharaf ad - din's blindness and his opinion that the post of kādi could be lawfully filled by a blind man , although all the other ...
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... in the following lines , composed by Abū Tammām , in praise of Muhammad Ibn Abd al - Malik az - Zaiyāt , al - Motasim's vizir : Prince of the faithful ! you have roused Muhammad , and in your hand he is a lance and a sword .
... in the following lines , composed by Abū Tammām , in praise of Muhammad Ibn Abd al - Malik az - Zaiyāt , al - Motasim's vizir : Prince of the faithful ! you have roused Muhammad , and in your hand he is a lance and a sword .
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( 2 ) Abū Saīd Sinān Ibn Thābit Ibn Kurra al - Harrāni ( a Sabean by religion and a native of Harrān ) was the chief physician of the khalif al - Muktadir , and he afterwards served al - Kāhir in the same capacity . This prince always ...
( 2 ) Abū Saīd Sinān Ibn Thābit Ibn Kurra al - Harrāni ( a Sabean by religion and a native of Harrān ) was the chief physician of the khalif al - Muktadir , and he afterwards served al - Kāhir in the same capacity . This prince always ...
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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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