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ʿAbīd Ibn Al-Abraṣ
ʿAbīd ibn al-Abraṣ Al Asadi ( was an Arab poet of the Jahiliyya (pre-Islamic period), thought to have lived in the first half of the sixth century CE. Biography Little is known about ibn al-Abraṣ; Charles James Lyall provides an English survey of medieval stories of his life and times, but their reliability is generally doubtful.Dīwāns of ʿAbīd Ibn al-Abraṣ, of Asad and ʿĀmir Ibn at-Tufail, of ʿĀmir Ibn Saʿsaʿah', ed. and trans. by Charles James Lyall, E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Series, 21 (Leiden: Brill, 1913). Ibn al-Abraṣ's tribe was the Banu Asad (tribe), Banū Asad. Legends about him have him as a contemporary (and victim) of the Lakhmid kingdom, Lakhmid king al-Mundhir III ibn al-Nu'mān, who died in 554, and Imru' al-Qays, likewise of the late fifth and earlier sixth centuries. Imru' al-Qays, whose father Hujr, king of Kingdom of Kinda, Kinda, was killed by the Banū Asad, is portrayed as a rival to ibn al-Abraṣ.F. Gabrieli, 'ʿAbīd b. al-Abraṣ', in ''E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jahiliyya
In Islamic salvation history, the ''Jāhiliyyah'' (Age of Ignorance) is an era of pre-Islamic Arabia as a whole or only of the Hejaz leading up to the lifetime of Muhammad. The Arabic expression (meaning literally “the age or condition of ignorance”) indicates an evaluation of selected parts of earlier Arabian history from a strongly Islamic perspective. The ''Jāhiliyyah'', often criticised by historians as Propaganda, religious propaganda because the term served as a grand narrative to paint pre-Islamic Arabs as barbarians in a morally corrupt social order. Its people (the ''jahl'', sing. ''jāhil'') lacked religious knowledge (''ʿilm'') and civilized qualities (''ḥilm''). As a result, they practiced polytheism, idol worship, and allegedly committed female infanticide, had societies rife with tyranny, injustice, despotism, and anarchy, and prejudice resulted in vainglorious tribal antagonisms. The pre-Islamic age was Essentialism, essentialized into a group of attribu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |