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Book Chapter
Martyr to Love
2011
Overview
IN THIS CHAPTER we shall read a poem by Jamil (ca. 660–701), our first poet to have lived entirely during the Islamic era (begun 622). The era dawned with a series of stunning military conquests that further confirmed to Muslims, after the miracle of the Qur’an, the truth of the new religion and the reality of divine intervention in human affairs. It seemed manifest that God had intended Islam to spread and God’s community to prosper. What had begun as a small religious community, comprising the town of Medina and, later, also the town of Mecca (where the Prophet
