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Release date is 2015-11-14

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This digital edition is dedicated to the people of Syria,
in the hope that the seeds of rationality will once again
find a fertile soil in your country.

"The Luzumiyat of Abu'l-Ala" by Abu al-Ala al-Maarri is a collection of poetry comprising nearly 1600 short poems. Written over many years using a self-imposed double-consonant rhyme scheme, these terse works explore doubt, uncertainty, death, and the afterlife through an ironic and cynical lens. Each brief poem presents incomplete ideas and unresolved questions, containing heterodox views on religion, reason, and virtue that challenged orthodox thinking. The collection showcases extraordinary command of Arabic while expressing a deeply unconventional human vision. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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