Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, Volume 1Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1843 - 616 pages |
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... verses from one of his kasidas may serve as an example of his pathetic style : Desist , self - tormentor ! thus only can thy woes be healed . Thy eyes have exhausted their tears in weeping ; try then to find others shedding copious ...
... verses from one of his kasidas may serve as an example of his pathetic style : Desist , self - tormentor ! thus only can thy woes be healed . Thy eyes have exhausted their tears in weeping ; try then to find others shedding copious ...
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... verses : 66 66 6 ' Some persons accused thee and said that it was thou who caused my pains and afflic- tions ; but I denied the truth of their words , so that their suspicions might be turned away from thee to another : -I like the ...
... verses : 66 66 6 ' Some persons accused thee and said that it was thou who caused my pains and afflic- tions ; but I denied the truth of their words , so that their suspicions might be turned away from thee to another : -I like the ...
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... verses , he immediately undertook to provide for the poet's wife , and he furnished her with every thing she required as long as her husband was absent . As for Ibn Asaad , he went to Egypt and recited to as - Salih Ibn Ruzzik the poem ...
... verses , he immediately undertook to provide for the poet's wife , and he furnished her with every thing she required as long as her husband was absent . As for Ibn Asaad , he went to Egypt and recited to as - Salih Ibn Ruzzik the poem ...
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... verses belong to a 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 ...
... verses belong to a 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 ...
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... verses in dispraise of early drinking . One of his sayings was : " Eloquence is the just expression of ideas in few " words ( 4 ) . ” He observed also that if he was asked what was the finest pas- sage of poetry which he knew of , he ...
... verses in dispraise of early drinking . One of his sayings was : " Eloquence is the just expression of ideas in few " words ( 4 ) . ” He observed also that if he was asked what was the finest pas- sage of poetry which he knew of , he ...
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Abd al-Malik Abd Allah Ibn Abd ar-Rahmân Abù Abu Abd Abu Bakr Abû Ishak Abû l-Hasan ad-Dawlat ad-din al-Fadl al-Hasan Ibn al-Husain al-Mansûr al-Marwazi al-Mutanabbi Aleppo Amr Ibn anecdote ar-Rashid Arabic Arbela as-Saffah as-Shâfi autograph az-Zuhri Baghdad Basra Cairo celebrated composed Damascus death died A. H. diwân doctor Egypt eminent emir father favour hâfiz Hajji Khalifa heart Ibn Abd Allah Ibn Ahmad Ibn Ibn al-Hasan Ibn Ali Ibn Ibn Khallikân Ibn Muhammad Ibn Ibrahim imâm interred Jaafar Jumâda jurisconsult jurisprudence kâdi kasida katib khalif Khorasan Kitâb Koran l-Hasan Ali Ibn l-Kaada l-Kâsim learned Mâlik master mawla means belonging Mekka mentioned month Moslim mosque Mosul Muharram Nasr native Obaid Allah Omar Ibn person poems poet poetry possessed prince recited replied Saad sect Shafite shaikh Sibawaih surnamed Syria thee thou took traditionist Traditions treatise tribe vizir whilst words Yûsuf