Umar Ibn Al-Farid
Subtitle: Sufi Verse, Saintly Life (Classics of Western Spirituality)
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: May 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780809105281
Subjects: Works by individual poets: classical, early & medieval; Poetry; Ibn al-Fåariòd, °Umar ibn °Alåi,; Arabic Poetry; Literary Criticism; Arabic; Religion; Middle East; Inspirational & Religious; Islam - Sufi; Middle Eastern; Ibn al-Farid, Umar ibn Ali; 1181 or 2-1235; Criticism and interpretation; Ibn al-Farid, Umar ibn Al
First sentence: From its pre-Islamic inception, Arabic verse on wine has been closely linked to blood and the powers of life and death.