Al-A'sha
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Al-A'sha (
.He traveled through Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabia and Ethiopia. He was nicknamed Al-A'sha which means "weak-sighted"[1] or "night-blind" after he lost his sight. He continued to travel even after becoming blind, particularly along the western coast of the Arabian peninsula. It was then that he turned to the writing of panegyrics as a means of support. His style, reliant on sound effects and full-bodied foreign words, tends to be artificial.[citation needed]
His love poems are devoted to the praise of Huraira, a black female slave. He is said to have believed in the Christian eschatological themes of
One of his qasidah or odes is sometimes included in the Mu'allaqat, an early Arabic poetry collection done by the critic Abu 'Ubaydah.[citation needed]
References
- ^ "Asha", The Free Dictionary, retrieved 2021-01-12
- ^ public domain: Thatcher, Griffithes Wheeler (1911). "A'Shā". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 724. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- Encyclopædia Britannica. Helen Hemingway Benton. 1973–1974. p. 574.
External links
- Recitation of his mu'allaqa