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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 1 (of 6)

Note 96 — THE CALIPH OMAR BIN ABD AL-AZIZ AND THE POETS.[85]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

i.e. of the Koraysh tribe. For his disorderly life see Ibn Khallikan ii. 372: he died however, a holy death, battling against the Infidels in A.H. 93 (= 711–12), some five years before Omar’s reign.

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