Talk:Al-Mutanabbi

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[edit] Burton's archaic but romantic translation of a Mutanabbi quote

Dunno where this fits in the article, but Richard Burton used a quotation from Mutanabbi to head his "Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah":

Dark and the Desert and Destriers me ken,

And the Glaive and the Joust, and Paper and Pen.

- Al-Mutanabbi, tr. by R.F. Burton

--Slashme 05:30, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

It's mentioned in the article, it's an example of his pride (he was an egocentric-self obsorbed-Narcissist - not that I don't like him, I love him too!) However, the translation in the article is neither complete nor "literary". --Maha Odeh 10:51, 25 July 2007 (UTC)