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The precise poems included in the Muʿallaqāt present another puzzle. The list usually accepted as standard was recorded by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbihi and names poems by Imruʾ al-Qays, Ṭarafah, Zuhayr, Labīd, ʿAntarah, ʿAmr ibn Kulthum, and al-Ḥārith ibn Ḥilliza. Such authorities as Ibn Qutaybah, however, count ʿAbid ibn al-Abras...
...counterpart of al-Mutanabbī, largely because of his eulogies of the Fāṭimid caliph al-Muʿizz, who at that time still resided in North Africa. The entertaining prose style of Ibn ʿAbd Rabbihi (died 940) in his al-ʿIqd al-farīd (“The Unique Necklace”) is similar to that of his elder contemporary Ibn Qutaybah, and his book in fact became...
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