Umar Ibn Al-Farid
Subtitle: Sufi Verse, Saintly Life (Classics of Western Spirituality)
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: May 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780809140084
Subjects: Other prose: classical, early & medieval; Religion; Inspirational & Religious; Criticism and interpretation; Literary Criticism; Poetry; Middle East; Islam - Sufism; Islam - Sufi; Middle Eastern; Ibn al-Farid, Umar ibn Ali; 1181 or 2-1235; Ibn al-Farid, Umar ibn Al; Ibn al-Fåariòd, °Umar ibn °Alåi,
First sentence: From its pre-Islamic inception, Arabic verse on wine has been closely linked to blood and the powers of life and death.