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Al-Burda
Qasīdat al-Burda, the "Ode of the Mantle", is a thirteenth-century ode in praise of Muhammad by al-Busiri, a mystic of the Shadhili Sufi order in Egypt. Its own title is "The Celestial Lights in Praise of the Best of Creation".
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