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alusur-8418	Keegan, Matthew L. 	Adab without the Crusades: The Inebriated Solidarity of a Young Officer’s Hunting Epistle	2020-10-01	25	.pdf	application/pdf	12693	657	66	It is therefore not simply a story of Yaghmur’s personal experience but a more general account of fleeting pleasures in the face of the terrible triumvirate of Time (al-zamān), Fickle Fortune (al-dahr), and the Passing Days (al-ayyām).3 Yaghmur’s epistle begins by urging the reader to face the uncertainties of Fate (al-qadar) by seizing the day (ightinām al-ʿumr), but it ends with the recognition that all 1. ʿ Imād al-Dīn al-Iṣfahānī, Kharīdat al-qaṣr wa-jarīdat ahl al-ʿaṣr (Levant), ed. ʿImād al-Dīn calls Yaghmur an “Arabized Turk (min muwalladī al-atrāk) and one of Damascus’s well-known military men (umarāʾihā al-maʿrūfīn).”11 What this epistle apparently represents is a text originally composed by someone who was part of a broader military elite but who was marginal to the world of adab and Arabic scholarship.	cache/alusur-8418.pdf	txt/alusur-8418.txt