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Zuhdīyāt
work by Abū al-ʿAtāhiyah
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…of his later years, the Zuhdīyāt (Ger. trans. by O. Rescher, 1928), collected in 1071 by the Spanish scholar Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr. The Zuhdīyāt depicts the leveling of the rich and powerful by the horrors of death; these poems found an enthusiastic following among the masses, as well as being…
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