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IBN FARID [Abu-l-Qasim `Umar ibn ul-Faritl] (1181-1235)
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IBN FARID [Abu-l-Qasim `Umar ibn ul-Faritl] (1181-1235), Arabian poet, was born in Cairo, lived for some time in Mecca and died in Cairo. His poetry is entirely Sufic, and he was esteemed the greatest mystic poet of the Arabs. Some of his poems are said to have been written in ecstasies. His diwan has been published with commentary at Beirut, 1887, &c.; with the commentaries of Burini (d. 1615) and `Abdul-Ghani (d. 1730) at Marseilles, 1853, and at Cairo; and with the commentary of Rushayyid Ghalih (19th century) at Cairo, 1893. One of the separate poems was edited by J. von Hammer Purgstall as Dasarabische holm Lied der Liebe (Vienna, 1854). See R. A. Nicholson, A Literary History of the Arabs (London, 1907), PP. 394-398. (G. W. T.)