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I saw that the fruits of poets’ thoughts are [like] offspring, akin to each other, and like nations, their poems are scattered upon the earth. Except for the poems of the unique littérateur Abū ’Abdullāh Ibn al-Ḥajjāj, for they are a strange nation that spreads on its own and a wondrous offspring…no one’s mind was able to master their likeness.
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Antoon, S. (2014). Ibn al-Ḥajjāj and Sukhf: Genealogies. In: The Poetics of the Obscene in Premodern Arabic Poetry. Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137391780_2
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