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Arabian Poetry: Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: Songs by Mashdud, Rakeek, and Rais

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THE preface with which these Poems are accompanied in the Mostatraf, at the same time that it explains the cause of their composition, gives no bad picture of Arabian manners during the flourishing period of the Khalifate:— I was one day going to the mosque [says Abu Akramah, an author who supported himself at Bagdad by the profits of his pen], in order to see if I could pick up any little anecdote which might serve for the groundwork of a tale. As I passed the gate of Abu Isy, son of the…

Arabian Poetry: Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: Songs by Mashdud, Rakeek, and Rais

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