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Document Type:Book
Title:The poem of Amriolkais : one of the seven Arabian poems or Moallaka which were suspended on the temple at Mecca / rendered into English by Sir William Jones.
Added Author: Jones, William, Sir, 1746-1794
Publisher: Shaftsbury, Dorset : The High House Press, 1930.
Pages:27 p.: ill (four wood-engravings)
Language:English
Notes:Printed from an English translation of the 7 mu'allaqat made by Sir William Jones during 1780-1 and published in 1783. Reprinted by James E. Masters.
Author as Subject: Imru' al-Qays, 6th cent.Tarafa ibn al-'Abd, mid-6th cent.Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma, d.609Labid ibn Rabi'a al-'Amiri, d.c.661'Antara ibn Shaddad, 6th cent.'Amr ibn Kulthum, fl. 6th cent.al-Harith ibn Hilliza, 6th cent.
Descriptors: Poetry, Ancient Translated poem Biography
Location: Bodleian, Oxford. BOD Bookstack Arab.e.302
 

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