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Tarafa, or
Tarafah ibn al 'Abd ben Sufyan ben Malik al Bakri, was a
6th century Arabian poet of the tribe of the
Bakr.
After a wild and dissipated youth spent in
Bahrain, left his native land after peace had been established between the tribes of Bakr and
Taghlib and went with his uncle
Al-Mutalammis (also a poet) to the court of the king of
Hira,
'Amr ibn-Hind (died 568-9), and there became companion to the king's brother. Hira was as the time a vassal of the
Persian Sasanian Empire. Having ridiculed the king in some verses he was sent with a letter to
Dadafruz Gushnasban, the Persian Governor of Southern shores of the
Persian Gulf, but Tarafa and his uncle managed to escape underway.
One of his poems is contained in the
Mo'allakat.
His
Diwan has been published in
Wilhelm Ahlwardt's
The Diwans of the Six Ancient Arabic Poets (
London, 1870). Some of his poems have been translated into
Latin with notes by
B. Vandenhoff (
Berlin, 1895).
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