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

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

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