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Al-Uqaysir The Qudi'ah[1], the Lakhm[2], the Judham[3], the 'Amilah[4], and the Ghatafan[5] had, in the hills of Syria, an idol called al-Uqaysir[6]. Of it Zuhayr ibn-abi-Sulma says:
Where the foreparts of the heads and the lice ate shaven." Of it also Rabi' ibn-Dab' al-Fazaril[7] said:
And round al-Uqaybir men sing his praise and glory." | |
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Of it, too, al-Shanfara al-Azdi[8] the confederate (halif) of the banu-Fahm[9], said:
Come to the aid of 'Amr and his friends reproacheth me[10]." | ||
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FOOTNOTES
1. Ishtiqaq, p.313.
2 ibid., p.225.
3 ibid., p.225.
4 Sifah, pp.129, 132.
5 Ishtiqaq, pp.164, 167.
6 Wellhausen, pp.62-64. Set also G. L. Della Vida, "al-Ukaisir,"
in the Encyclopaedia of Islam.
7 Al-Aghani, vol. viii, p.72, vol. XIX, p.99.
8 ibid., vol. xxi, Pp.134-143.
9 Ishtiqaq p.162.
10 cf. al-Aghani, vol. xxi, p.141, line 18.
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