Dedication
TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
EMIR FEISAL
IN WHOM ARE CENTRED
THE HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS
OF THE SYRIAN PEOPLE
FOR A UNITED SYRIA
THIS BOOK
IS DEDICATED
THE LUZUMIYAT
OF
ABU’L-ALA
Epigraph
Selected from his
Luzum ma la Yalzam and Suct uz-Zand
and first rendered into English
“His poems generally known as the Luzumiyat arrest attention by their boldness and originality as well as by the sombre and earnest tone which pervades them.”—Raynold A. Nicholson: A History of the Arabs.
“Abu’l-Ala is a poet many centuries ahead of his time.”—Von Kremer.