Saqt az-Zand
Poetry collection by Al-Ma'arri / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Saqt az-Zand (Arabic: سقط الزند, romanized: Saqṭ az-Zand; also transliterated as Sikt al-Zand and translated as The Spark of the Fire Stick[1] or The Falling Spark of Tinder) was the first collection of poetry by al-Ma'arri.[2]: 3 It consists of seventy-four qasidas amounting to over three thousand lines, written in his youth and early adulthood, before the year 1020.[3]: 22 [4]