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O that the stars would draw near me that I should form from them a necklace in praise of you; for words are inadequate. A caliph and his vizier, whose justices extends a protecting shade over Islam and the nations. Their generosity is to the Nile’s increase as a diminished stream; that vanquishes
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They that have been false in their allegiance, will not escape the effects of God's anger Their burning thirst will not be slaked by the hand of the noblest of created beings, the Seal of the
Apostles Love of the Imams is the foundation of faith in God, and of all good works. They are the divine
424:(1135-1200). Umara had for a time enjoyed amical relations with him, and it was al-Faḍl who had suggested to Umara to write a history of Yemen. However they became bitter enemies and his hatred of Umara, and others' of Saladin's adherents, may have fed the suspicions.
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by letter to come and assist in placing the son of al-Aḍid on the throne. But they had received among them a man belonging to the army, who was not a native of Egypt, and this person informed
Saladin. When they were brought before the prince, they did not deny their
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Also known as Najm al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥakamī, or Umāra ibn Abī Ḥasan ibn Alī ibn Zaidan, or al-Faqīh Abū Muḥammad (Imad al-Din gives him the surname of Abū Hamza), Umāra ibn Abī’-Ḥasan Alī Raidān Ibn Aḥmad al-Hakami al-Yamani, or even Omara al-Yamani the
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Fatimid rule, was discovered, Umara was among the eight principal conspirators arrested. He and his co-conspirators were sentenced to death by strangulation. The execution took place at Cairo on a Saturday in April 1174.
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and Nur ad-Din, culminating in the killing of Shawar in 1168, and the accession of Nur ad-Din's representative, Shirkuh, to the vizierate. Shirkuh died later that year, and al-Aḍid invested the vizirate in
Shirkuh's nephew,
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school. Despite their religious differences and due to Umara's great sociability, they became constant companions, Umara composing numerous eulogiums for the vizier and his sons.
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487:; (original texts, with translation and notes; London: Edward Arnold, 1892), by Umarah ibn Ali al-Hakami (1120 or 1121-1174), Ibn Khaldun, and Muhammad ibn Ya'qub Janadi.
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body was exposed on a cross with those of the other persons who had been accused of plotting against and of inviting the
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188:of Egypt. He was executed by order of
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1068:"Ṭalāʾiʿ b. Ruzzīk"
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