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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 6 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LABID (See also:Abu 'Agil Labicl See also:ibn Rabi'a) (c. 56o-c. 661)  , Arabian poet, belonged to the Bani 'See also:Amir, a See also:division of the tribe of the Hawazin . In his younger years he was an active See also:warrior and his See also:verse is largely concerned with inter-tribal disputes . Later, he was sent by a sick See also:uncle to get a remedy from See also:Mahomet at See also:Medina and on this occasion was much influenced by a See also:part of the See also:Koran . He accepted See also:Islam soon after, but seems then to have ceased See also:writing . In See also:Omar's See also:caliphate he is said to have settled in See also:Kufa . Tradition ascribes to him a See also:long See also:life, but See also:dates given are uncertain and contradictory . One of his poems is contained in the Mo'allakat (q.v.) . Twenty of his poems were edited by Chalidi (See also:Vienna, 1880); another See also:thirty-five, with fragments and a See also:German See also:translation of the whole, were edited (partly from the remains of A . See also:Huber) by C . Brockelmann (See also:Leiden, 1892) ; cf . A. von Kremer, fiber See also:die Gedichte See also:des Lebyd (Vienna, 1881) . Stories of See also:Labid are contained in the Kitabul-Aghani, xiv .

93 if. and xv . 137 if . (G . W .

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