Shanfara
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Information for Authority record
Name (Latin)
Shanfara
Name (Arabic)
الشنفرى
Other forms of name
Sanfara Ibn Aus
Azdi, Shanfara
Schanfara Ibn Aus
Ibn Aus al-Shanfara
Thabit Ibn Aus
Shanfara al-Azdi
Schanfara der Verbannte
Azdi, Thabit Ibn Aus
Ibn Aus, Thabit
shanfara Ibn Aus
شنفرى
ابن أوس، ثابت
الأزدي، ثابت بن أوس
ثابت بن أوس
ابن أوس، الشنفرى
Gender
male
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Author's Lāmīyat al-ʻArab, 1964.
- His Dīwān al-Shanfará, 1991:t.p. (ʻAmr ibn Mālik, ca. 70 QH)
- شعر الشنفرى الازدي، 2000:صفحة العنوان (الشنفرى الازدي).
Wikipedia description:
Al-Shanfarā (Arabic: الشنفرى; died c. 525 CE) was a semi-legendary pre-Islamic poet tentatively associated with Ṭāif, and the supposed author of the celebrated poem Lāmiyyāt ‘al-Arab. He enjoys a status as a figure of an archetypal outlaw antihero (su'luk), critiquing the hypocrisies of his society from his position as an outsider.
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