The Luzumiyat of Abu'l-Ala

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The Luzumiyat of Abu'l-Ala (1920)
by Ameen Rihani
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THE LUZUMIYAT

OF

ABU’L-ALA


Selected from his
Luzum ma la Yalzam and Suct us-Zand
and first rendered into English


By
AMEEN RIHANI
Author of
The Book of Khaled


(Second Edition)


NEW YORK
JAMES T. WHITE & CO.,
1920

"His poems generally known as the Luzumiyat arrest attention by their boldness and originality as well as by the sombre and earnest tone which pervades them."—Raynold A. Nicholson: A History of the Arabs.

"Abu'l-Ala is a poet many centuries ahead of his time."—Von Kremer.


COPYRIGHTED 1918 BY
JAMES T. WHITE & CO.

TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

EMIR FEISAL

IN WHOM ARE CENTRED

THE HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS

OF THE SYRIAN PEOPLE

FOR A UNITED SYRIA

THIS BOOK

IS DEDICATED


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.


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