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Representations of the divine in Arabic poetry
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Abū l-Jarrāḥ al-Aswad b. Yaʿfur (or Yuʿfur) b. ʿAbd al-Aswad was a pre-Islamic poet of the tribe of Nahshal (Tamīm), one of the ʿushw , the poets bearing the epithet “al-Aʿshā” (the night-blind). He was an esteemed wandering poet in the region of al-Ḥīra, where for a time he was…
Al-Khirniq bt. Badr b. Hiffān (or bt. Hiffān b. Badr) of the Banū Ḍubayʿa b. Qays (Bakr) (fl. mid-sixth century C.E.) was a pre-Islamic female poet. Her name, meaning rabbit kitten or leveret, also appears without the article, Khirniq, and some sources persist in reading her nam…