The Luzumiyat of Abu'l-Ala

THE LUZUMIYAT OF ABU'L-ALA

Selected from his Luzum ma la Yalzam and Suct uz-Zand and first rendered into English

By AMEEN RIHANI Author of The Book of Khaled

(Second Edition)

NEW YORK JAMES T. WHITE & CO., 1920

TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS EMIR FEISAL IN WHOM ARE CENTRED THE HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS OF THE SYRIAN PEOPLE FOR A UNITED SYRIA THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED