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BU5IRI [See also:Abu `Abdallah_ Muhammad See also:ibn Said ul-Busiri] (1211-1294) , Arabian poet, lived in See also:Egypt, where he wrote under the patronage of Ibn Ilinna, the See also:vizier. His poems seem to have been wholly on religious subjects. The most famous of these is the so-called " Poem of the See also:Mantle." It is entirely in praise of See also:Mahomet, who cured the poet of See also:paralysis by appearing to him in a See also:dream and wrapping him in a mantle. The poem has little See also:literary value, being an See also:imitation of Ka`b ibn See also:Zuhair's poem in praise of Mahomet, but its See also:history has been unique (cf. I. See also:Goldziher in Revue de l'histoire See also:des religions, vol. xxxi. pp. 304 ff.). Even in the poet's lifetime it was regarded as sacred. Up to the See also:present See also:time its verses are used as amulets; it is employed in the See also:lamentations for the dead; it has been frequently edited and made the basis for other poems, and new poems have been made by interpolating four or six lines after each See also:line of the See also:original. It has been published with See also:English See also:translation by Faizullabhai (Bombay, 1893), with See also:French translation by R. See also:Basset (See also:Paris, 1894), with See also:German translation by C. A.

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Vienna, 186o), and in other See also:languages elsewhere. For See also:long See also:list of commentaries, &c., cf. C. Brockelmann's Gesch. der Arab. Litteratur (See also:Weimar, 1898), vol. i. pp. 264-267. (G. W.

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