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Ibn Shuhayd

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Ibn Shuhayd (c. 1035) was the author of a work that lent inspiration to Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī for his Risālat al-ghufrān (“Epistle of Pardon”). The prolific Ibn Ḥazm of Córdoba (died 1064) wrote the delightful Ṭawq al-ḥamāmah (“The Ring of the Dove”), which dealt with…
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