See also:

• AKHTAL [GxrYATH IBN IIA1uTa] (c. 64o-71o)

AKHTAL [GxrYATH See also:

• IBN

IBN IIA1uTa] (c. 64o-71o)  , one of the most famous Arabian poets of the Omayyad See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period, belonged to the tribe of Taghlib in See also:

• MESOPOTAMIA (Mevoaora)

Mesopotamia, and was, like his See also:

• FELLOW

fellow-tribesmen, a See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian, enjoying the freedom of his See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion, while not taking its duties very seriously . Of his private See also:

• LIFE

life few details are known, See also:

• SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva; Lat. Savus)

save that he was married and divorced, and that he spent See also:

• PART

part of his See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time in See also:

• DAMASCUS

Damascus, part with histribe in Mesopotamia . In the See also:

• WARS

wars of the Taghlibites with the Q,aisites he took part in the See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field, and by his satires . In the See also:

• LITERARY

literary strife between his contemporaries Jarir and Ferazdaq he was induced to support the latter poet . See also:

• AKHTAL [GxrYATH IBN IIA1uTa] (c. 64o-71o)

Akhtal, Jarir and Ferazdaq See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form a trio celebrated among the See also:

• ARABS

Arabs, but as to relative superiority there is dispute . In the 'Abbasid period there is no doubt that Akhtal's See also:

• CHRISTIANITY

Christianity told against his reputation, but See also:

• ABU

Abu 'Ubaida placed him highest of the three on the ground that amongst his poems there were ten flawless qasidas (elegies), and ten more nearly so, and that this could not be said of the other two . The See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief material of his poems consists of See also:

• PANEGYRIC

panegyric of patrons and See also:

• SATIRE (Lat. satira, satura; see below)

satire of rivals, the latter being, however, more restrained than was usual at the time . The See also:

• POETRY

Poetry of al-Akhtal has been published at the Jesuit See also:

• PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

press in See also:

• BEIRUT

Beirut,1891 . A full See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the poet and his times is given in H . Lammens' Le chantre See also:

• DES

des Omiades (See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, 1895) (a reprint from the See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Journal Asiatique for 1894) . (G . W .