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- Title: Spice, Spiced Wine, And Pure Wine (Essay)
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 182 KB
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The Arabs have coined a proverb ashar min qifa nabki ("more famous than 'Stop, let us weep!'") quoting the first two words of Imru' al-Qays's Mu'allaqa. This Mu'allaqa is known to have several versions, in which the number and order of lines are slightly different. The version used here is edited by 'Abd al-Rahman al-MustawI (2003), comprising 81 lines. It is in the second to last line that we encounter the word rahiq: Here is A. J. Arberry's very literal translation: (2)