THE LUZUMIYAT OF ABU’L-ALA Selected from his Luzum ma la Yalzam and Suct uz-Zand and first rendered into English (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. |