02057cam a22003253u 4500 50457 UtSlPG 20260610134147.0 m cr n 260607r2015||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PJ Abu al-Ala al-Maarri, 973-1057 The Luzumiyat of Abu'l-Ala : Selected from his Luzum ma la Yalzam and Suct us-Zand Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2015 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luz%C5%ABmiyy%C4%81t Release date is 2015-11-14 Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.) 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.) Original publication data not identified Arabic poetry -- Translations into English Rihani, Ameen Fares, 1876-1940 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50457 91295 91295