Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, Volume 1Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1843 - 616 pages |
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... lines : ( 6 66 You have treated me as al - Muhallab treated al - Farazdak when he overwhelmed him with his unbounded ... line of his own . " He claimed to be descended from the kings of Persia , and composed a work called the Taswiya ...
... lines : ( 6 66 You have treated me as al - Muhallab treated al - Farazdak when he overwhelmed him with his unbounded ... line of his own . " He claimed to be descended from the kings of Persia , and composed a work called the Taswiya ...
Page 46
... lines , which , for reasons already given , I have not translated . ( 8 ) This last verse is not to be found in some of the MSS . , the autograph among the number . ( 9 ) It appears from the treatises on the Hanefite system of ...
... lines , which , for reasons already given , I have not translated . ( 8 ) This last verse is not to be found in some of the MSS . , the autograph among the number . ( 9 ) It appears from the treatises on the Hanefite system of ...
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... lines already mentioned by Ibn Khallikān , vol . I. page 651 , and which begin thus : I wonder how the bark , etc. ( It may be observed that the latter writer attributes them to another poet . ) Tāhir then made him get into the boat ...
... lines already mentioned by Ibn Khallikān , vol . I. page 651 , and which begin thus : I wonder how the bark , etc. ( It may be observed that the latter writer attributes them to another poet . ) Tāhir then made him get into the boat ...
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... lines : 66 66 The trade of a bookbinder is the worst of all ; its leaves and its fruits are nought but ' disappointment . I may compare him that follows it to a needle , which clothes others , ' but is naked itself ! ' " ( 3 ) These ...
... lines : 66 66 The trade of a bookbinder is the worst of all ; its leaves and its fruits are nought but ' disappointment . I may compare him that follows it to a needle , which clothes others , ' but is naked itself ! ' " ( 3 ) These ...
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... lines : Hind , a filly of pure Arabian breed and sprung from noble steeds , has she not been covered by an ass ? If she bear a foal of good points , she had a right to do so ; but if it be only a half - blood ( ikrįf ) , wonder not ! it ...
... lines : Hind , a filly of pure Arabian breed and sprung from noble steeds , has she not been covered by an ass ? If she bear a foal of good points , she had a right to do so ; but if it be only a half - blood ( ikrįf ) , wonder not ! it ...
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