Abu Tammam

Quotes

• “If poetry could be exhausted, then it would already have been so   by the collected water in your cisterns, in past times.Rather, it is the rainfall of the mind: some clouds   may vanish, only to be followed by more clouds.”
• “The sword gives truer tidings than do scriptures;    its edge is what tells zeal from vanity; White blades, not the black letters on the page — these    reveal misguided doubts for what they are.”
• “A victory at which Heaven threw wide its gates,   which Earth put on new dress to celebrate:O battle of Amorium, from which   our hopes returned engorged with milk and honey,The Muslims hast thou fixed in the ascendant,   pagans and pagandom fixed in decline!”

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Key facts

Native name

حبيب بن أوس الطائي

Born

ca. 796/807 AD, Jasim

Died

845 AD, Mosul

Pen name

Abū Tammām

Language

Arabic

Period

Islamic Golden Age , ( Abbasid era )

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Wikidata facts

Image

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