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[POEM] “Let Your Swords Decide” by the Arab Pagan Poet Antarah ibn Shaddad (Translated into English)
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[POEM] “Let Your Swords Decide” by the Arab Pagan Poet Antarah ibn Shaddad (Translated into English)

*Pre-Islamic poem by the Arab poet-knight Antarah ibn Shaddad (ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād al-ʿAbsī, c. 525–608 CE).*This English rendering is based on the celebrated poem Ḥakkim Suyūfaka (“Let Your Swords Decide”).
*James E. Montgomery (trans.), selections from War Songs in Antara Ibn Shaddād: War Songs (Library of Arabic Literature / NYU Abu Dhabi).

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