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Also known as Al-Shanfara, Al-Shanfarā

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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  1. Desert Tracings: Six Classical Arabian Odes by Alqama, Shánfara, Labíd, ʿAntara, al-Aʿsha and Dhu al-Rúmma

    · 1991

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Key facts

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
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0525-00-00
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12 sections
Contents
  • Life
  • Works
  • ''Lamiyyat al-Arab''
  • ''Ta'iyya''
  • ''Fa'iyya''
  • Legacy
  • Editions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • Traditional
  • Contemporary

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.

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