The Luzumiyat of Abu'l-Ala: Selected from his Luzum ma la Yalzam and Suct us-Zand
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"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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