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‘In Medina, on the other hand,* idealised love poetry was the vogue; its invention is attributed to Jamil (died 701[ce]), of the tribe Udrah, “whose members die when they love”. The names of some of those “martyrs of love”, together with the names of their beloved,** were preserved and eventually became proverbial expressions of the tremendous force of true love. Such was Qays, who went mad because of his passion for Laylā and was afterwards known as Majnūn (“the demented one”). ***|His story is cherished by later Persian, Turkish, and Urdu poets; as a symbol of complete surrender to the forces of love, he is dear both to religious mystics and to secular poets.

‘Notwithstanding such new developments, the traditional “qasidah” form of poetry was by no means neglected during the Umayyad period.|***’

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***– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:] 51

{↑cf XIV: [] 157-158 Hindu love (of god) literature (c[irca]7thC[entury ce]ff/)c[irca]11thC[entury ce]ff[;]

XII: [] 13-14 (French) romances c[irca]12thC[entury ce]ff.}

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