خلاصه ماشینی:
after· going through as-Suli' s admirable collection of poetry and specially the one connected with the unintelligible little creatures, I was inclined to think that Arabic poetry contained, though, at present, hidden from our ken, many other wonders and that when the mass of the literary material lay dumped in many public and private libraries of Egypt, Turkey, Syria, and Europe, saw the light of the day, as the book of a~-$uli had seen only 14 years hence (the first edition in hand), we might well see quite unexpected and curious topics enshrined into it.
Here, I shall try to give a rendering of the salient portions of these poems, called by a~-$iili " elegies of animals," so that the Indians may find it necessary to change their view and the general reader may be enlightened and the literary savant be induced to rededicate himself to further exploration of the Arabic poetry.
His grandfather, Sabih, was a Coptic slave to one of the Arab secretaries (Katibs) at the provincial Secretariat of al-Kufah towards the end of the "Umayyad regime.
A~-$uli has introduced his poetry in these words: "I have begun with the notice of al-Qasim (in preference to his brother, Ahmad, the minister of al-Ma'mun) as he is older than Abu-Ja'far Ahmad b.
as an interesting poet and dismisses him in these words, "al-Qasim mainly devoted himself to the praise and elegies of animals and most of his poetry is related to this topic.