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‘Words and rhetorical speech were the principal means through which the *Bedouin expressed feelings. The shair, or poet-musician, said to be possessed by supernatural powers, was feared and respected. His satirical song-poems were a formidable arm against enemies, and his poems of praise enhanced the prestige of his tribe. Musician-poets, especially women,** accompanied the warriors, inciting them by their songs, and those who fell in battle benefited from the elegies of the singer-poets.’

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*[pre-Islamic]

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*** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:65]

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