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Al-ghayth al-musjam fī sharḥ Lāmīyat al-ʻAjam (The downpour, or commentary, on the Lamiyah of the Persian) is a commentary by the famous man of letters Khalil ibn Aybak al-Safadi (circa 1297‒1363) on the poem al-Lamiyah by Persian scientist and poet al-Husayn ibn ‘Ali al-Tughra’i (1061 or 1062‒circa 1121). Both writers are widely known and studied by scholars in a variety of fields: chemistry, alchemy, history, and literature. Al-Safadi comments extensively on al-Tughra’i’s poem al-Lamiyah, digressing at length on many topics, serious and humorous. Indeed, writing ...