The Poem That Foiled A King’s Thrifty Scheme
The story of Al-Asma’i and a challenging Arabic poem
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4 min readOct 5, 2020
After I graduated from high school in the Middle East, I thanked God a thousand times that this poem was not in our curriculum. It is the most challenging poem I’ve ever read in my life. However, this poem has a remarkable story behind it.
It is the perfect story to…
