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• ZUHAIR [Zuhair ibn Abi Sulma Rabi' a ul-Muzani] (6th century)

ZUHAIR [Zuhair See also:

• IBN

ibn Abi Sulma Rabi' a ul-Muzani] (6th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century)  , one of the six See also:

• GREAT

great Arabian pre-Islamic poets . Of his See also:

• LIFE

life practically nothing is known See also:

• SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva; Lat. Savus)

save that he belonged tt a See also:

• FAMILY

family of poetic See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power; his stepfather, Aus See also:

• IBN

ibn Hajar, his See also:

• SISTER

sister, See also:

• KHANSA (Tumadir hint `Amr, known as al-Khansa) (d. c. 645)

Khansa, and his son, Ka'b ibn See also:

• ZUHAIR [Zuhair ibn Abi Sulma Rabi' a ul-Muzani] (6th century)

Zuhair, were all poets of See also:

• EMINENCE (Lat. eminentia)

eminence . He is said to have lived See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long, and at the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of one See also:

• HUNDRED

hundred to have met See also:

• MAHOMET (strictly MUHAMMAD, commonly also MOHAMMED)

Mahomet . His See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home was in the See also:

• LAND

land of the Bani Ghatafan . His poems are characterized by their peaceful nature and a sententious moralizing . One of them is contained in the Moallakdt . As a whole his poems have been published by W . Ahlwardt in his 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, 1870) ; and with the commentary of al-A'lam (died Io83) by See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Count Landberg in the second See also:

• PART

part of his Primeurs arabes (See also:

• LEIDEN

Leiden, 1889) . Some supplementary poems are contained in K . Dyroff's Zur Geschichte der Uberlieferung See also:

• DES

des Zuhairdiwans (See also:

• MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich, 1892) . (G . W .