of al Shanfara when he was made prisoner: Recite. And he said: Composition is
for a time of joy. Then he said: Do not bury me for my burial is forbidden To you,
but my grave digger is Umm Amar When they took my head, my head is most of
me, Then the rest of me was left on a battlefield Down here I don't hope for life
that rejoices me A talker with nights, fearless at injustice Poetry has times when
the near things in it become far and what has bean trained in it seems t o rebel.
And so ...
... nous. and Joui or cold breath, psyche. in the written word represented the
basic three part pattern. These latter two were said to emanate (from Latin flow,-
Greek mad о and hence madzos, nipple). Various Arab philosophers such as Ion
Sina, al líazi, al Farabi and Ibn Rushd reworked these ideas. AI Gazali found a
five part pattern consisting of touch, vision, speech, taste and reason. In Surope
ot Thomas equinas based his version on that of St John Damascene. and St
Augustine.
