Back to Table of Contents To next page Jarir b. Atiya poet from Arabia (d728) ---------------------------------- Taken from: Al-Jahiz: Al-Fakhar al-Sudan min al-Abyadh (the prides of blacks over the whites) He attests of the Zanj; He is one of the first to use the name. Jarir ibn al-Khatafi who mocked the Taghlib tribe in the verses: Don't try to look for worthy people among the maternal uncles of a Taghlib person; Because even the Zanj have nobler uncles then they. |