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'ABD AL-KARIM BIN MUHAMMAD BIN 'ABD AL-KARIM AL-QAYSI KNOWN AS AL-BASTI (FL. 15TH CENTURY): DIWAN

SPAIN OR NORTH AFRICA, CIRCA 16TH CENTURY

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'ABD AL-KARIM BIN MUHAMMAD BIN 'ABD AL-KARIM AL-QAYSI KNOWN AS AL-BASTI (FL. 15TH CENTURY): DIWAN
SPAIN OR NORTH AFRICA, CIRCA 16TH CENTURY
Poetry, Arabic manuscript on Tre Lune watermarked paper, 93ff. plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 22ll. of sepia andalusi script, titles in larger black or red script, with catchwords, occasional marginal notes, later pagination, old damage and restoration, in 19th century stamped reddish brown morocco binding
Folio 9 ¾ x 6 ½in. (22.8 x 16.5cm.)

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Al-Basti is one of the last poets of Islamic Spain. His diwan is famous for elegies to lost Nasrid cities but makes little reference to the dates of historical events. He is not recorded in Brockelmann and Arberry.

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