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Burhan al-Din ibn al-Mabit

برهان الدين ابن المابط

c. 1541 CE · c. 948 AH

A Cairo poet — his lines in praise of coffee survive in the Shadharat: 'O you who fault our coffee's blackness — in it is a cure for souls of their ills — do you not see it in its cup — telling of the black of the eye amid its whiteness' 1.

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At a glance

Roles
Poet
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Egypt & Nile
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Literature

Overview

Burhan al-Din Ibrahim b. al-Mabit, a poet of Cairo; of his verse on coffee: "O you who fault our coffee's blackness — in it is a cure for souls of their ills — do you not see it in its cup, telling the eye's black amid its white" 1.

People and things also explored

al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant· Aljamia (aljamiado: Spanish written in Arabic script, and its literature)· Arab naming of children after plants· The wise sayings attributed to Ali· Poetry attributed to Ali ibn Abi Talib· The delegation of Banu Tamim and the boasting contest· Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's pardon and recitation of Banat Su'ad· Khuza'a's appeal to Medina

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 688
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al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant

Al-Hamdani's register of the peninsula's tongues records that the highland Himyar and Ja'da keep 'something of tanahmir' — Himyaritic speech — eliding consonants: 'bi-bn Ma'am' for 'bi-bn al-'amm', 'simmi'' for 'isma''. He counts Kinda and Hamdan the most eloquent of the south, says Mahra's speech resembles the 'ajam's, and names Nahj, Abyan and Dathina the purest — the earliest detailed witness to Old Himyaritic surviving on fourth-century tongues.