I Am Like A Man Going In The Darkness, Whilst Behind Him Shines A Bright Moon
(vide Diwan, Beirut, 1309 A.H., p. 972). rnrnIbn Tiqtaqa also quoted the above poem in his al-Fakhri (comp. 699/1302). Abul Fida (2:309) writes, "Sharif ar-Radi had composed a poem in praise of the Fatimids in which he admitted the legitimate descent of the Fatimids from Ali bin Abu Talib."rnrnBut in 402/1011, the Abbasid caliph Kadir ...