Arabic & Persian

al-Jumaih

6th century


Munqidh ibn at-Tammah, called al-Jumaih, was of the tribe of Asad; Lyall describes him as the son of a contemporary and enemy of Imra' al-Qais, and says that he fell at the battle of Shi'b Jabalah, fought in or about A.D. 570.

Three of his poems are in the Mufaddaliyat: a complaint against a wife set at variance with him by her people, a denunciation of a treacherous killing, and a lament for a chief.

  1. Ode IV: Umamah has become tongue-tied, and will
  2. Ode VII: Ask Ma'add who were the knights
  3. Ode CIX: O thou protector of Nadlah, the

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