id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
alusur-8608	Miller, Nathaniel A.	Dear Muʿāwiya: An “Epistolary” Poem on a Major Muslim Military Defeat during the Mediterranean Campaigns of AH 28–35/649–56 CE	2023	32	.pdf	application/pdf	16959	821	67	Another Hudhalī poet from Khunāʿa, Abū al-ʿIyāl’s clan, complains of having been left behind in Arabia while his family has gone to Egypt (Miṣr).45 Still another Hudhalī, Abū Ṣakhr, declares that some kin “have left Tihāma, our land, and for Mecca have exchanged Babylon (Bāb al-Yūn),” referring to the Byzantine name for the Egyptian fortress adjacent to which the Muslim garrison of Fusṭāṭ was established.46 These poetic references to Hudhayl in Egypt are corroborated by Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbd al-Ḥakam (d. 257/871), the chronicler of the Egyptian conquests, who mentions the location of Hudhayl’s quarter in early Fusṭāṭ.47 The texts of the muʿāraḍa between Badr and Abū al-ʿIyāl make absolutely no reference to the narrative of a slain nephew, so there is no reason to accept the latter as the poems’ subject. Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī, Kitāb al-Aghānī, ed.	cache/alusur-8608.pdf	txt/alusur-8608.txt