Arabic & Persian

A Woman of Hanifah

6th century


The author of Ode LXIX is an unnamed poetess of the tribe of Hanifah, who bewails Yazid ibn 'Abdallah ibn 'Amr, chief of the Banu Hanifah.

Lyall says the piece occurs in the small collection of elegies attributed to Ibn al-A'rabi.

  1. Ode LXIX: Ah, dead is the Son of

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