Makamat: Or, Rhetorical Anecdotes

¹ Literally Abou-Zaid says alliteration allusion applied Arab poet arrow artifice Badiah Baghdad Basra Bedouin begging bestow bounty called camel clause Compare a passage Damascus Damietta denar derived disgrace distress eloquence equivalent express father fire fortune Golius hand Haraam Hareth Hariri Hesiod indited Jesus Ben Sirach journey judge Kaaba Khaliph Koran Koufa lion Makamah pag means Mecca metaphor metonym Mohammed Moslemin mosque Mount Arafat Muezzins never night observed occurs original pearls perfidy person phrase poem poverty practised praise prayer present primarily properly prophet quoted in pag rain regarded rendered repentance replied rhyme Sacy Sanaa Sasaan Scholiast says seek sense Seroug Shareeshi says Surah tears thee thou art thou hast thou wilt thyself town translation tribe verb verses wine WORDS OF HARETH Yemen καὶ اذا الله ان على عن لا لم ما من ولا