“Were it not that poesy tarnished scholars” | ولو لا الشعر بالعلماء يزري
Coin of al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra. Zibayrid governor, circa AH 75-79 / AD 694-698, Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. [CC BY-SA]
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- Author: Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʿī
- Period: 8th Century , 9th Century
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