(v) I do not find these verses in the printed copies of either the Luzumiyat or Suet uz-Zand. But they are quoted, from some Ms. copy I suppose, by the historian Abu'l-Fida.
(w) Omar wrote poetry in Arabic too. My learned friend, Isa Iskandar Maluf of Zehleh, Mt. Lebanon, showed me some quatrains of "Omar the Tentmaker and Astronomer," in an old Arabic Ms. which bear a striking resemblance to some of Abu'l-Ala's both in thought and style.
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