Arabic & Persian

'Amirah ibn Ju'al

7th century


'Amirah ibn Ju'al of Taghlib lived under Islam; Ibn Qutaibah makes him and his brother Ka'b contemporaries of Yazid I (A.D. 680-83).

Lyall reports that he afterwards repented of having satirized his own tribe.

  1. Ode LXIII: May God fix in the two
  2. Ode LXIV: Ah, the abodes of the tribe

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