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TARAFA ['Amr ibn ul- 'Abd ul-Bakri] (6th cent.)

TARAFA ['Amr
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IBN
ibn ul- 'Abd ul-
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BAKRI
Bakri] (6th cent.) , Arabian poet, who, after a

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WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild and dissipated youth spent in Bahrein,

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LEFT

left his native

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LAND

land after

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peace had been established between the tribes of Bakr and Taghlib and went with his

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UNCLE

uncle Mutalammis (also a poet) to the

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court of the

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king of

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HIRA

Hira, 'Amr

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IBN

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HIND

Hind (died 568-9), and there became

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COMPANION (through the O. Fr. compaignon or compagnon, from the Late Lat. companio,—cum, with, and panis, bread,—one who shares meals with another; the word has been wrongly derived from the Late Lat. compagnus, one of the same pages or district)

companion to the king's

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BROTHER

brother . Having ridiculed the king in some verses he was sent with a

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LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter to the ruler of Bahrein, and, in accordance with the instructions contained in the letter, was buried alive . One of hia poems is contained in the Moallakat (q.v.) . His diwan has been published in W . Ahlwardt's The Diwans of the Six

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Ancient Arabic Poets (

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LONDON

London, 187o) . Some of his poems have been translated into Latin with notes by B . Vandenhoff (

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Berlin, 1895) . (G . W .

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