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The Historical Significance Of Later Anṣārī Poetry—I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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Of the poems of boasting ascribed to Hassan b. Thabit, 16 are found on investigation to be by later Ansarls and reflect the inferior status to which the Ansar in general were reduced after the battle of al-Harra and the sack of Madina in the year A.H. 63, as well as, occasionally, the tribal rivalries which prevailed during the Umayyad period.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , February 1966 , pp. 1 - 11
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- Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1966
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page 1 note 1 In Hirschfeld's edition of the Diwan of Hassan b. Thabit Gibb Memorial Series xui,Leyden and London, 1910,Google Scholar
page 1 note 2 Ed. Wustenfeld, Gottingen, 1859,Google Scholar
page 4 note 3 Hirschfeld adds the note that this poem is ascribed to the poet's son, Abd al-Rahman but there is no manuscript authority for this note. It probably arose from a comment by Ibn Hisham which concerned a poem on p. 929 of the Sira (to be discussed below) but which Hirschfeld may have interpreted as covering the two poems which follow immediately after it. One of these is the poem now under consideration,Google Scholar
page 6 note 4 It is understandable that a versifier of a later generation may include such a line, intentionally or otherwiseGoogle Scholar
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