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The poems were edited by Albert Socin with Latin translation as Die Gedichte des 'Alkama Alfahl (Leipzig, 1867), and are contained in Wilhelm Ahlwardt's The Diwans of the six ancient Arabic Poets (London, 1870); cf. Ahlwardt's Bemerkungen über die Echtheit der alten arabischen Gedichte (Greifswald, 1872), pp. 65–71 and 146–168.
He is one of the seven poets of the most celebrated anthology of ancient Arabic poetry, known as the Muʿallaqāt, however just one of his poems is included. His fellow poets preserved in this work are Al-Nabigha, Antarah ibn Shaddad, Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma, 'Alqama ibn 'Abada and Imru' al-Qais.
The poems of 'Alqama ibn 'Abada and Al-Nabigha are from the same period. In Al-Nabigha's poem sometimes reckoned as a Muʻallaqah, he addresses himself to the king of al-Hirah, al-Nu'man III ibn al-Mundhir, who reigned in the two last decades of the sixth century. The same king is mentioned as a contemporary in one of poems of ʻAlqama.
544 – Arator declaims his poem De Actibus Apostolorum in the Church of San Pietro-in-Vinculi; 554 – 'Abid ibn al-Abris died about this year; Arabic poet; 560: Samaw'al ibn 'Adiya died about this year; Jewish poet writing in Arabic; Labīd born this year (died 661); Arabic poet; 565 – Procopius died (born about 500)
Alqama, Alkama, ʿAlqama or ʿAlḳama may refer to: 'Alqama ibn 'Abada (fl. early 6th century), Arab poet; Alqama ibn Qays (d. 681/2), Muslim scholar;
Although diwans (poetry collections) by early poets survive; e.g., Bishr ibn Abi Khazim, al-Hadira, Amir ibn al-Tufail, 'Alqama ibn 'Abada, al-Muthaqqib, Ta'abbata Sharran and Abu Dhu'ayb), it is unclear how many were compiled before al-Mufaddal's anthology of forty-eight pre-Islamic and twenty Islamic-era poets. [2]
Abu Zayd Abd al-Rahman ibn Yakhlaftan ibn Ahmad al-Fazazi (Arabic: عبد الرحمن الفزازي) (died in Fez in 627/1230) was a poet and mystic. [1] He is especially well known for his Al-Wasail al-Mutaqabbala , a long poem in praise of the Islamic prophet Mohammed .
A verse from al-Busiri's poem al-Burda on the wall of his shrine in Alexandria. Al-Būṣīrī (Arabic: ابو عبد الله محمد بن سعيد بن حماد الصنهاجي البوصيري, romanized: Abū ʿAbdallāh Muhammad ibn Saʿīd al-Ṣanhājī al-Būṣīrī; 1212–1294) was a Sanhaji [1] [2] [3] Sufi Muslim poet belonging to the Shadhili, and a direct disciple of the Sufi ...