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

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