Love, Death, Fame Jeffrey R. Sprague Topics include how patrons of

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Love, Death, Fame Jeffrey R. Sprague Topics include how patrons ofPoems and tales of a literary forefather of the United Arab Emirates Love, Death, Fame features the poetry of al Mayidi ibn Zahir, who has been embraced as the earliest poet in what would later become the United Arab Emirates. Although little is known about his life, he is the subject of a sizeable body of folk legend and is thought to have lived in the seventeenth century, in the area now called the Emirates. The tales included in Love, Death, Fame