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# Abu l-ʿAlaʾ al-Maʿarri (Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī)

Blind Syrian poet and sceptic; praised Indian cremation and vegetarianism.

## Works (1)

- [لزوم ما لا يلزم](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.adab.luzumiyyat) — Arabic; 1010–1040 CE; catalogued, text not yet digitised

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