See also:

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

TARAFA ['Amr See also:

• IBN

ibn ul- 'Abd ul-See also:

• BAKRI

Bakri] (6th cent.)  , Arabian poet, who, after a See also:

• WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild and dissipated youth spent in Bahrein, See also:

• LEFT

left his native See also:

• LAND

land after See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

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

• UNCLE

uncle Mutalammis (also a poet) to the See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court of the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of See also:

• HIRA

Hira, 'Amr See also:

• IBN

ibn See also:

• HIND

Hind (died 568-9), and there became See also:

• 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 See also:

• BROTHER

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

• 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 See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

Ancient Arabic Poets (See also:

• LONDON

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

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, 1895) . (G . W .