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LUQMAN, or LOKMAN

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LUQMAN, or LOKMAN , the name of two, if not of three (cf. See also:note to Terminal See also:Essay in See also:Sir Rd. See also:Burton's See also:translation of the Arabian Nights), persons famous in Arabian tradition. The one was of the See also:family of 'Ad, and is said to have built the See also:great See also:dike of Marib and to have received the See also:gift of See also:life as See also:long as that of seven vultures, each of which lived eighty years. The name of the seventh See also:vulture—Lubad—occurs in proverbial literature. The name of the second Luqman, called " Lugman the See also:Sage," occurs in the See also:Koran (31, ir). Two accounts of him are current in Arabian literature. According to Mas'udi (i. rro) he was a Nubian freedman who lived in the See also:time of See also:David in the See also:district of Elah and See also:Midian. According to some commentators on the Koran (e.g., See also:Baidawi) he was the son of Ba'ura, one of the sons of See also:Job's See also:sister or maternal aunt. See also:Derenbourg in his Fables de Logmdn le sage (1850) identifies Ba'ura with Beoi, and believes the name Luqman to be a translation of See also:Balaam. The See also:grave of Luqman was shown on the See also:east See also:coast of the See also:lake of See also:Tiberias, also in See also:Yemen (cf. Yaqut, vol. iii. p. 512).

The so-called Fables of Luqman are known to have existed in the 13th See also:

century, but are not mentioned by any Arabian writer. They were edited by See also:Erpenius (See also:Leiden, 1615) and have been reprinted many times. For the relation of these to similar literature in other lands, see J. See also:Jacobs's edition of See also:Caxton's Fables of See also:Aesop, vol. i. (See also:London, 1889). The name of Luqman also occurs in many old verses, anecdotes and See also:proverbs; cf. G. See also:Freytag's Arabum Proverbia (See also:Bonn, 1838-1843) and such Arabian writers as See also:Tabari, Mas'udi, See also:Damiri and the Kitdb al-Mu'ammarin (ed. by I. See also:Goldziher, Leiden, 1899). (G. W.

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