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IBN FARID [Abu-l-Qasim `Umar ibn ul-F...

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 221 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IBN See also:FARID [See also:Abu-l-Qasim `See also:Umar ibn ul-Faritl] (1181-1235)  , Arabian poet, was See also:born in See also:Cairo, lived for some See also:time in See also:Mecca and died in Cairo . His See also:poetry is entirely Sufic, and he was esteemed the greatest mystic poet of the See also:Arabs . Some of his poems are said to have been written in ecstasies . His diwan has been published with commentary at See also:Beirut, 1887, &c.; with the commentaries of Burini (d . 1615) and `Abdul-Ghani (d . 1730) at See also:Marseilles, 1853, and at Cairo; and with the commentary of Rushayyid Ghalih (19th See also:century) at Cairo, 1893 . One of the See also:separate poems was edited by J. von See also:Hammer Purgstall as Dasarabische holm Lied der Liebe (See also:Vienna, 1854) . See R . A . See also:Nicholson, A See also:Literary See also:History of the Arabs (See also:London, 1907), PP . 394-398 . (G .

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