The Luzumiyat by Abu al-ʻAlaʼ al-Maʻarri

The Luzumiyat

Abu al-ʻAlaʼ al-Maʻarri with Ameen Rihani (Translator)

100 pages first pub 1920 (editions) user-added

nonfiction classics poetry
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At the height of the Islamic Golden Age, in the first half of the 11th century, the Arab poet and freethinker Abu al-ʻAlaʼ al-Maʻarri touched off an entire literary scene around himself in his hometown of Maʻarra, Syria. With a religious skepticis...

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