Shanfara
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Al-Shanfarā (; 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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- Fī al-tadhawwuq al-jamālī li-Lāmīyat al-ʻArab lil-Shanfará
- Majmūʻ min muhimmāt al-mutūn al-mustaʻmalah min ghālib khawāṣ al-funūn
- في صحبة الشنفري، المتوفى نحو 70 ق.هـ-554 م
- Kitāb Aʻjab al-ʻajab fī sharḥ Lāmīyat al-ʻArab
- al-Muʻallaqāt al-sabʻ
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- Poet.name
- Al-Shanfara
- Poet.death_date
- c. 525 CE
- Poet.occupation
- Poet
- Poet.language
- Arabic
- Poet.notableworks
- Lāmiyyāt ‘al-Arab
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- date of birth
- 0401-00-00
- date of death
- 0600-01-01
- pseudonym
- al-Shanfarā
- name in native language
- الشنفرى
- floruit
- 0525-00-00
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12 sectionsContents
- Life
- Works
- ''Lamiyyat al-Arab''
- ''Ta'iyya''
- ''Fa'iyya''
- Legacy
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- Notes
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Al-Shanfarā (; 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.
==Life== The name Al-Shanfara means "he who has large lips." His full name may be either Thabit ibn Malik or Thabit ibn Aws. What is known about al-Shanfarā is inferred from the poems which he is believed with confidence to have composed. He seems fairly certainly to have belonged to the Yemenite al-Azd tribe, probably specifically to the Al-Khazraj clan. He is sometimes counted among the aghribat al-Arab (Arab crows), a term referring to Arabs with African mothers. Others argue against his inclusion in this group, which according to scholar Bernard Lewis is due to a confusion between the sa'alik and the aghribat al-Arab in some early sources.