Front matter
Ameen Fares Rihani translation
THE LUZUMIYAT OF ABU’L-ALA
TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS EMIR FEISAL IN WHOM ARE CENTRED THE HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS OF THE SYRIAN PEOPLE FOR A UNITED SYRIA THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
THE LUZUMIYAT OF ABU’L-ALA
Selected from his Luzum ma la Yalzam and Suct uz-Zand and first rendered into English
By AMEEN RIHANI Author of The Book of Khaled
(Second Edition) NEW YORK JAMES T. WHITE & CO., 1920
“His poems generally known as the Luzumiyat arrest attention by their boldness and originality as well as by the sombre and earnest tone which pervades them.”—Raynold A. Nicholson: A History of the Arabs.
“Abu’l-Ala is a poet many centuries ahead of his time.”—Von Kremer.
COPYRIGHTED 1918 BY JAMES T. WHITE & CO.