Diwans of 'Abid Ibn Al-Abras, of Asad, and 'Amir Ibn Al-Tufail, of Amir Ibn Sa'sa'ah

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344 pages
Notes, Translation, Commentary
Language: Arabic
Published: 1913
Publisher: The E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust
ISBN / EAN: 0906094135

This text present poems of Abid and Amir which are found in other works, but the 11th-century MS in the British Library on which this edition is based is unique. Both are tribal poets of the Jahiliyyah, the period before Islam.