BU5IRI [

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• ABU

Abu `Abdallah_ Muhammad

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• IBN

ibn Said ul-Busiri] (1211-1294)  , Arabian poet, lived in Egypt, where he wrote under the patronage of Ibn Ilinna, the vizier . His poems seem to have been wholly on religious subjects . The most famous of these is the so-called " Poem of the Mantle." It is entirely in praise of Mahomet, who cured the poet of paralysis by appearing to him in a dream and wrapping him in a mantle . The poem has little literary value, being an imitation of Ka`b ibn Zuhair's poem in praise of Mahomet, but its history has been unique (cf . I . Goldziher in Revue de l'histoire des religions, vol. xxxi. pp . 304 ff.) . Even in the poet's lifetime it was regarded as sacred . Up to the present time its verses are used as amulets; it is employed in the lamentations for the dead; it has been frequently edited and made the basis for other poems, and new poems have been made by interpolating four or six lines after each line of the original . It has been published with English translation by Faizullabhai (Bombay, 1893), with French translation by R . Basset (Paris, 1894), with German translation by C . A .

Ralfs (

Vienna, 186o), and in other languages elsewhere . For long list of commentaries, &c., cf . C . Brockelmann's Gesch. der Arab . Litteratur (Weimar, 1898), vol. i. pp . 264-267 . (G . W .