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

Note 102 — THE CALIPH OMAR BIN ABD AL-AZIZ AND THE POETS.[85]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

In Bresl. Edit. “Al-Akhwass,” clerical error noticed in Ibn Khallikan i. 526. His satires banished him to Dahlak Island in the Red Sea, and he died A.H. 179 (= 795–6).

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