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BEHA UD-DIN See also:

ZUHAIR (See also:ABU-L FADL ZUHAIR See also:IBN MAHOMMED AL-MUHALLABI) (1186-1258), Arabian poet, was See also:born at or near See also:Mecca, and became celebrated as the best writer of See also:prose and See also:verse and the best calligraphist of his See also:time. He ehtered the service of Malik u-Salib Najm ud-Din in See also:Mesopotamia, and was with him at See also:Damascus until he was betrayed and imprisoned. Bella ud-Din then retired to Nablus (See also:Shechem) where he remained until Najm ud-DIn escaped and obtained See also:possession of See also:Egypt, whither he accompanied him in 1240. There he remained as the See also:sultan's confidential secretary until his See also:death, due to an epidemic, in 1258. His See also:poetry consists mostly of See also:panegyric and brilliant occasional verse distinguished for its elegance. It has been published with See also:English metrical See also:translation by E. H. See also:Palmer (2 vols., See also:Cambridge, 1877). His See also:life was written by his contemporary Ibn Khallikan (see M'G. de Slane's trans. of his See also:Biographical See also:Dictionary, vol. i. PP- 542-545)• (G. W.

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