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The qasida form was a very common one in Arab poetry and one of its purposes was to serve as a vehicle for the praise of a patron or some other notable man. Al-Maarri’s earlier qasidas conformed to this tone and style, and were also notable for their undertone of Shia values. His work included an
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The most important elements in this work are al-Ma'arri's maxims and his reflections on life and death, on human nature and aspirations, and on his own life and its contradictions. The collection did not however display the intense philosophy and erudition of al-Ma’arri’s later work, the
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of Ibn Khayr al-Ishbili (d. 1200), while poet and historian Ibn Bassām al-Shantarīnī (d. 1147) cited it extensively in his “Al-Dhakhīra fī Mahāsin Ahl al-Jazīra” (Treasury of the Merits of the Folk of the
Peninsula).
110:; the commentator al-Khwarazimi said that title was an allusion to the effort required to grasp the meaning of the verses, similar to the effort involved in producing fire from friction between two pieces of wood.
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