A Literary History of the Arabs

by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

"Wadd give thee greeting! for dalliance with women is lawful to me no more, Since Religion has become a serious matter."

Wadd was a god worshipped by the pagan Arabs. Derenbourg's text has rabbí, i.e., Allah, but see Nöldeke's remarks in Z.D.M.G., vol. xli (1887), p. 708.

[249] Aghání, viii, 85, last line-86, l. 10.

[250] Lyall, Ten Ancient Arabic Poems, p. 146 seq., vv. 25-31.

[251] Ahlwardt, The Divans, p. 106, vv. 8-10.

[252] Ḥamása, p. 382, l. 17.

[253] Nöldeke, Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Poesie der alten Araber, p. 152.

[254] Nöldeke, ibid., p. 175.

[255] The original title is al-Mukhtárát (The Selected Odes) or al-Ikhtiyárát (The Selections).

[256] Oxford, 1918-21. The Indexes of personal and place-names, poetical quotations, and selected words were prepared by Professor Bevan and published in 1924 in the E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Series.