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Al-shanfarā (6th century BC) with a group of poets such as Taabbata Sharran (“he who has put evil in his armpit”) are among the best known of the sulūk (“brigand”) poets. Shanfarā was depicted as living a life of solitude and hardship based on the looting and plundering. Shanfarā has two long and famous odes. One of them is Tāeiyeh and the other is Lāmiyyatu'l arab. Lāmiyyatu'l arab is one of the most famous poems in the Arabic literature which can be as important as Moallaqāt. Lāmiyyatu'l arab is natural expression of nomad life and far from features of urban life. Shanfarā in this poem has taken pride in following items: homelessness, poverty, looting at cold nights, refusing the life with Breaking, preferring the wild animals to his tribe, simple life, endurance against starvation, courage, taking revenge.
Since the Lāmiyyatu'l arab has been quoted orally from the pre-Islamic times to the Eighth century AD, and was not written in the literary collections, Ibn-e Dorayd among the ancients and Yosuf Khalif and Korenko among the moderns scholars have doubts in its attribution to Shanfarā. On the other hand there are other scholars such as Borokelman, Jorge Yaqoob, Abdo-l Halim Hafni, Foad Bostani and Emil Badie Yaqoob who believed that Lāmiyyatu'l arab belongs to Shanfarā. This article tries to find that whether Lāmiyyatu'l arab’s attribution to Shanfarā is true or not.
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